The demographic transition
Birth and death rates are expressed per 1,000 of the population.
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Charts
- Annual population growthwith UN projections
- Birth rate vs. death rate
- Births and deaths per yearwith UN projections
- Births per yearwith UN projections
- Births per year, by world region
- Child deaths per year
- Children per woman vs. Natural population growth
- Children under age 15, by world region1950 to 2100, with UN projections
- Children under age 5
- Children under age 5, by world regionwith UN projections
- Deaths per yearwith UN projections
- Deaths per year, by age group
- Deaths per year, by world region
- Fertility rate: children per womanwith UN projections
- Natural population growthwith UN projections
- Natural population growth rate vs. child mortality rate
- Natural population growth rate vs. median age
- Population10,000 BCE to 2100, with UN projections
- Populationsince 10,000 BCE, Marimekko
- Populationsince 10,000 BCE
- Population1950 to 2100, with UN projections
- Population by age group1950 to 2100, with UN projections
- Population by age group
- Population by world region10,000 BCE to 2100, with UN projections
- Population growth ratewith UN projections
- Population growth rate by level of developmentwith UN projections
- Population growth rate with and without migration
- Population of young, working-age and elderly
- Population of young, working-age and elderlywith UN projections
- Population, comparison of United Nations projections1950 to 2100, with UN projections
- Share of births registered
- Time for the world population to double
- World population, comparison of UN projections
- World population, comparison of different historical sources