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World Population Day

11 July, 2021

In 1950, five years after the United Nations was founded, the world’s population was around 2.6 billion people. By 2020 it had reached 7.8 billion (with at least 55% living in urban areas) and by 2050 there will be 9.7 billion. Take a look at this Dashboard for annually-updated global population data. Interestingly, though fertility rates have fallen (from 4.5 children per woman in the 1970s to 2.4 in 2020), life expectancy has risen (64.6 years in the 1990s to 73 in 2020). Such population megatrends affect economic development, employment, income distribution, poverty, social protections, and access to health care, education, housing, sanitation, water, food and energy. World Population Day began in 1989 and is to find solutions to meet the needs of our world’s growing population sustainably.

 

Image: 2100 World Population by Country