Western Asia Population Pyramid 2016

Western Asia
2016
Population: 270,585,625

Year

-5 -1   2016  +1 +5

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Western Asia in 2016

The population of Western Asia in 2016 was 270,585,626. Over the previous ten years the population grew by 26.7%, up from 213,577,592 in 2006. With a median age of 26.5 years, Western Asia had a youth dependency ratio of 45.7 and an old-age dependency ratio of 7.8 per 100 people of working age. This is a stationary pyramid — similar numbers in each age group up to the older cohorts, the signature of near-replacement fertility.

Share of the population by age group, 1950–2100

Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.


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