The UN releases an update of its World Population Prospects every two years. Its latest release was due in 2021 but was delayed as a result of the pandemic. But today, the long-awaited dataset has been released.
With early access to this new UN data, we have published a new Population and Demography Data Explorer on Our World in Data, where you can explore this full dataset in detail.
Explore the new UN demographic projections to 2100
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The UN releases an update of its World Population Prospects every two years. Its latest release was due in 2021 but was delayed as a result of the pandemic. But today, the long-awaited dataset has been released.
With early access to this new UN data, we have published a new Population and Demography Data Explorer on Our World in Data, where you can explore this full dataset in detail.
To complement this data explorer, we’ve also published a post on the Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects.
All metrics are available:
For every country in the world, continent, and World Bank income group
With projection scenarios up to the year 2100
Broken down by sex and age group
Here’s the full list of metrics:
Population
Age structure
Population density
Births (absolute & rate)
Deaths (absolute & rate / all ages, child, infant)
Life expectancy
Migration
Sex ratio
Dependency ratio
Median age