World Population Updates

Use these PRB publications, graphics, and video to learn more about how demographers analyze data on fertility, mortality, and migration to create population projections, and how assumptions can produce different results over time.

The 2014 Malawi Youth Data Sheet provides health and population data for youth ages 15 to 24.

The Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey (KAIS) 2012 was the first national population-based survey in Kenya to collect HIV information for children ages 18 months to 14 years.

The 2012 Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey (KAIS) was a nationally representative population-based survey of adults and adolescents ages 15 to 64 and children ages 18 months to 14 years.

View data on global, regional, or country maps or tables using PRB’s 2014 interactive map. This map gives you 15 indicators organized in six tabs: population, births and deaths, life expectancy, family planning, income, and environment. For three of the indicators—infant mortality, total ferti…

PRB's data sheet contains the latest information available on the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting. This update of the 2010 wallchart shows the practice is still present in at least 29 developing countries, although there is some evidence that younger generations in some countries may f…

PRB's Family Planning Worldwide 2013 Data Sheet provides the latest estimates of births per woman and other indicators for 150 countries, including the percentage of women using modern and traditional family planning methods, unmet need for family planning, and use of modern contraception by wealth …

Africa, by far the world’s poorest region, will record the largest amount of population growth of any world region between now and 2050. Africa’s population is expected to more than double, rising from 1.1 billion today to at least 2.4 billion by 2050. “Nearly all of that growth will be in the 51 co…

This PRB data sheet, created as part of PRB's IDEA project (funded by USAID), and in partnership with PAHO, provides a wealth of data for selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that document the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases, especially among the region's youth.

The World's Youth 2013 Data Sheet provides a comprehensive portrait of the well-being of youth ages 10 to 24 across the globe, including such indicators as the current and projected size of youth populations, educational enrollments, labor force participation, marriage and fertility, and health risk…

This world population clock reflects data from PRB's 2012 World Population Data Sheet. The clock has births, deaths, natural increase, and infant deaths by year, month, week, day, hour, minute, and second. The data are for the world, and for more developed countries and less developed countries.

Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase. In contrast, developed countries as a whole will experience little or no population growth in this century. The 2012 World Population Dat…