Highlights From the 2024 World Population Data Sheet
Highlights From the 2024 World Population Data Sheet
Highlights From the 2024 World Population Data Sheet
This lesson provides students with the background to understand the importance of age structure on population growth.
(2011) Together, China and India account for 37 percent of the world’s population. Both countries have conducted censuses over the past year, and when they report their census results, figures such as the widely accepted world population total are at risk of changing.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
The world population will reach 9.9 billion in 2050, up 33 percent from an estimated 7.4 billion now, according to projections included in the 2016 World Population Data Sheet from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
PRB’s World Population Data Sheet is an annual report on the world’s demographic, health, and environmental progress and challenges.
(2009) Population change will shape the prospects of regions and countries over the next half century.
(2006) As late as 25 years ago, China was concerned it had too many children to support.
(2004)World population was transformed in the 20th century as technological and social changes brought steep declines in birth rates and death rates around the world. The century began with 1.6 billion people and ended with 6.1 billion, mainly because of unprecedented growth after 1960.
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.