World population

Source	UN (World Population Prospects 2019)
Date	16 May 2020

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The World population is projected at 7.79 billion or 7,795 million as of July 1, 2020. There are 3.93 billion males and 3.86 billion females living on earth. The Global population is estimated at 7.71 billion or 7,713 million for year 2019. In 2023, the human population will grow to more than 8 billion. By 2037, this number will exceed 9 billion. In 2057, 10 billion milestone is projected.

In 2020, the world’s population growth rate is 1.05%, half the peak level of 2.09 percent in 1968. That annual growth rate is expected to continue declining, reaching 0.5 percent by mid century and moving close to zero by 2100. In period 1965-1972, global population growth rate was above 2% each year.

The annual increase of world population in 2020 is 81 million, that is 2 million less than the population of the 19th ranked Germany. Annual additions are projected to continue declining by around 1 million every year, reaching 48 million by 2050 and 3 million by 2100. The absolute increase of the population per year has peaked in 1988 with almost 93 million.

More than half the world lives in urban areas. The proportion residing in urban areas has increased from 30% in 1950 to 56 percent in 2020 and is expected to continue rising to nearly 68 percent by 2050.

As of 2020, 25.45 percent of global population are younger than 14 years, 9.33% are older than 65, 65.22 % are working age between 15 and 65 years.

World population in 5 year Age Group in 2020
Age group	Male	Female	Total
Age group	Male	Female	Persons	Share (%)
00-04	349,432,556	328,509,234	677,941,790	8.70
05-09	342,927,577	321,511,867	664,439,444	8.52
10-14	331,497,486	309,769,906	641,267,392	8.23
15-19	316,642,222	295,553,758	612,195,980	7.85
20-24	308,286,775	289,100,903	597,387,678	7.66
25-29	306,059,387	288,632,766	594,692,153	7.63
30-34	309,236,984	296,293,748	605,530,732	7.77
35-39	276,447,037	268,371,754	544,818,791	6.99
40-44	249,389,688	244,399,176	493,788,864	6.33
45-49	241,232,877	238,133,282	479,366,159	6.15
50-54	222,609,691	223,162,982	445,772,673	5.72
55-59	192,215,395	195,633,743	387,849,138	4.98
60-64	157,180,267	164,961,323	322,141,590	4.13
65-69	128,939,392	140,704,320	269,643,712	3.46
70-74	87,185,982	101,491,347	188,677,329	2.42
75-79	54,754,941	69,026,831	123,781,772	1.59
80-84	33,648,953	48,281,201	81,930,154	1.05
85-89	15,756,942	26,429,329	42,186,271	0.54
90-94	5,327,866	11,352,182	16,680,048	0.21
95-99	1,077,791	3,055,845	4,133,636	0.05
100+	124,144	449,279	573,423	0.01
Total	3,929,973,953	3,864,824,776	7,794,798,729

World population in urban areas
Year	Urban (%)	Rural (%)
1950	29.61	70.39
1955	31.64	68.36
1960	33.75	66.25
1965	35.59	64.41
1970	36.59	63.41
1975	37.72	62.28
1980	39.35	60.65
1985	41.20	58.80
1990	42.96	57.04
1995	44.78	55.22
2000	46.68	53.32
2005	49.16	50.84
2010	51.66	48.34
2015	53.93	46.07
2020	56.17	43.83
2025	58.33	41.67
2030	60.43	39.57
2035	62.48	37.52
2040	64.47	35.53
2045	66.42	33.58
2050	68.36	31.64

World population estimates
Year	Population	Growth
Year	Population	Net Change	rate (%)
1950	2,536,431,149	-	-
1951	2,584,034,261	47,603,112	1.88
1952	2,630,861,562	46,827,301	1.81
1953	2,677,608,960	46,747,398	1.78
1954	2,724,846,741	47,237,781	1.76
1955	2,773,019,936	48,173,195	1.77
1956	2,822,443,282	49,423,346	1.78
1957	2,873,306,090	50,862,808	1.80
1958	2,925,686,705	52,380,615	1.82
1959	2,979,576,185	53,889,480	1.84
1960	3,034,949,748	55,373,563	1.86
1961	3,091,843,507	56,893,759	1.87
1962	3,150,420,795	58,577,288	1.89
1963	3,211,001,009	60,580,214	1.92
1964	3,273,978,338	62,977,329	1.96
1965	3,339,583,597	65,605,259	2.00
1966	3,407,922,630	68,339,033	2.05
1967	3,478,769,962	70,847,332	2.08
1968	3,551,599,127	72,829,165	2.09
1969	3,625,680,627	74,081,500	2.09
1970	3,700,437,046	74,756,419	2.06
1971	3,775,759,617	75,322,571	2.04
1972	3,851,650,245	75,890,628	2.01
1973	3,927,780,238	76,129,993	1.98
1974	4,003,794,172	76,013,934	1.94
1975	4,079,480,606	75,686,434	1.89
1976	4,154,666,864	75,186,258	1.84
1977	4,229,506,060	74,839,196	1.80
1978	4,304,533,501	75,027,441	1.77
1979	4,380,506,100	75,972,599	1.76
1980	4,458,003,514	77,497,414	1.77
1981	4,536,996,762	78,993,248	1.77
1982	4,617,386,542	80,389,780	1.77
1983	4,699,569,304	82,182,762	1.78
1984	4,784,011,621	84,442,317	1.80
1985	4,870,921,740	86,910,119	1.82
1986	4,960,567,912	89,646,172	1.84
1987	5,052,522,147	91,954,235	1.85
1988	5,145,426,008	92,903,861	1.84
1989	5,237,441,558	92,015,550	1.79
1990	5,327,231,061	89,789,503	1.71
1991	5,414,289,444	87,058,383	1.63
1992	5,498,919,809	84,630,365	1.56
1993	5,581,597,546	82,677,737	1.50
1994	5,663,150,427	81,552,881	1.46
1995	5,744,212,979	81,062,552	1.43
1996	5,824,891,951	80,678,972	1.40
1997	5,905,045,788	80,153,837	1.38
1998	5,984,793,942	79,748,154	1.35
1999	6,064,239,055	79,445,113	1.33
2000	6,143,493,823	79,254,768	1.31
2001	6,222,626,606	79,132,783	1.29
2002	6,301,773,188	79,146,582	1.27
2003	6,381,185,114	79,411,926	1.26
2004	6,461,159,389	79,974,275	1.25
2005	6,541,907,027	80,747,638	1.25
2006	6,623,517,833	81,610,806	1.25
2007	6,705,946,610	82,428,777	1.24
2008	6,789,088,686	83,142,076	1.24
2009	6,872,767,093	83,678,407	1.23
2010	6,956,823,603	84,056,510	1.22
2011	7,041,194,301	84,370,698	1.21
2012	7,125,828,059	84,633,758	1.20
2013	7,210,581,976	84,753,917	1.19
2014	7,295,290,765	84,708,789	1.17
2015	7,379,797,139	84,506,374	1.16
2016	7,464,022,049	84,224,910	1.14
2017	7,547,858,925	83,836,876	1.12
2018	7,631,091,040	83,232,115	1.10
2019	7,713,468,100	82,377,060	1.08

World population projections
Year	Population	Growth
Year	Population	Net Change	rate (%)
2020	7,794,798,739	81,330,639	1.05
2021	7,874,965,825	80,167,086	1.03
2022	7,953,952,567	78,986,742	1.00
2023	8,031,800,429	77,847,862	0.98
2024	8,108,605,388	76,804,959	0.96
2025	8,184,437,460	75,832,072	0.94
2026	8,259,276,737	74,839,277	0.91
2027	8,333,078,316	73,801,579	0.89
2028	8,405,863,295	72,784,979	0.87
2029	8,477,660,693	71,797,398	0.85
2030	8,548,487,400	70,826,707	0.84
2031	8,618,349,489	69,862,089	0.82
2032	8,687,227,850	68,878,361	0.80
2033	8,755,083,431	67,855,581	0.78
2034	8,821,862,661	66,779,230	0.76
2035	8,887,524,213	65,661,552	0.74
2036	8,952,048,940	64,524,727	0.73
2037	9,015,437,653	63,388,713	0.71
2038	9,077,693,676	62,256,023	0.69
2039	9,138,828,468	61,134,792	0.67
2040	9,198,847,240	60,018,772	0.66
2041	9,257,745,535	58,898,295	0.64
2042	9,315,508,050	57,762,515	0.62
2043	9,372,118,186	56,610,136	0.61
2044	9,427,555,367	55,437,181	0.59
2045	9,481,803,274	54,247,907	0.58
2046	9,534,854,828	53,051,554	0.56
2047	9,586,707,986	51,853,158	0.54
2048	9,637,357,637	50,649,651	0.53
2049	9,686,800,357	49,442,720	0.51
2050	9,735,033,990	48,233,633	0.50
2051	9,782,061,551	47,027,561	0.48
2052	9,827,884,640	45,823,089	0.47
2053	9,872,499,765	44,615,125	0.45
2054	9,915,902,218	43,402,453	0.44
2055	9,958,094,074	42,191,856	0.43
2056	9,999,078,316	40,984,242	0.41
2057	10,038,871,460	39,793,144	0.40
2058	10,077,505,220	38,633,760	0.38
2059	10,115,019,650	37,514,430	0.37
2060	10,151,448,760	36,429,110	0.36
2061	10,186,811,590	35,362,830	0.35
2062	10,221,118,370	34,306,780	0.34
2063	10,254,382,510	33,264,140	0.33
2064	10,286,615,750	32,233,240	0.31
2065	10,317,830,210	31,214,460	0.30
2066	10,348,042,080	30,211,870	0.29
2067	10,377,267,710	29,225,630	0.28
2068	10,405,519,680	28,251,970	0.27
2069	10,432,810,410	27,290,730	0.26
2070	10,459,152,510	26,342,100	0.25
2071	10,484,559,380	25,406,870	0.24
2072	10,509,046,180	24,486,800	0.23
2073	10,532,629,590	23,583,410	0.22
2074	10,555,327,280	22,697,690	0.22
2075	10,577,155,890	21,828,610	0.21
2076	10,598,131,960	20,976,070	0.20
2077	10,618,268,330	20,136,370	0.19
2078	10,637,573,900	19,305,570	0.18
2079	10,656,054,440	18,480,540	0.17
2080	10,673,719,470	17,665,030	0.17
2081	10,690,576,970	16,857,500	0.16
2082	10,706,644,430	16,067,460	0.15
2083	10,721,951,210	15,306,780	0.14
2084	10,736,532,840	14,581,630	0.14
2085	10,750,416,740	13,883,900	0.13
2086	10,763,615,210	13,198,470	0.12
2087	10,776,129,370	12,514,160	0.12
2088	10,787,962,320	11,832,950	0.11
2089	10,799,112,050	11,149,730	0.10
2090	10,809,575,800	10,463,750	0.10
2091	10,819,350,480	9,774,680	0.09
2092	10,828,432,710	9,082,230	0.08
2093	10,836,817,180	8,384,470	0.08
2094	10,844,496,730	7,679,550	0.07
2095	10,851,460,600	6,963,870	0.06
2096	10,857,694,250	6,233,650	0.06
2097	10,863,179,440	5,485,190	0.05
2098	10,867,893,850	4,714,410	0.04
2099	10,871,811,480	3,917,630	0.04
2100	10,874,902,320	3,090,840	0.03