Population

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Charts

• Absolute increase in global population per year
• Age dependency ratio projections
• Annual number of births by world region
• Annual number of deaths by world region
• Birth rate vs. death rate
• Child mortality rate vs population growth
• Children per woman
• Children per woman vs population growth
• Completeness of birth registration
• Completeness of death reporting
• Crude death rate: the share of the population that dies per year
• Global and regional population estimates (US Census Bureau vs. UN)
• Historic and projected population
• Historical world population: comparison of different sources
• Natural population growthUN (1950 to 2100)
• Population and projected growth (total population and under 5)
• Population by age bracket with UN projections
• Population by broad age group
• Population by broad age group projected to 2100
• Population by countryClio Infra (1500 to 2000)
• Population density
• Population growth by world region: The annual change of the population
• Population growth rateUN (1950 to 2100)
• Population growth rate by level of development
• Population growth rate vs Child mortality rate
• Population growth rate vs. median age
• Population growth rate with and without migration
• Population growth vs child mortality
• Population growth: The annual change of the populationUN (1950 to 2100)
• Population of all world regions, including the UN projection
• Population under five years old
• Rate of natural population increaseUN
• Size of young, working age and elderly populations
• Size of young, working-age and elderly populations
• The Demographic Transition
• The Demographic Transition: Decline of the death rate followed by a decline of the birth rate
• The total fertility rate by world region including the UN projections
• World population by regionHYDE (1820 to 2019)