Western Asia Population Pyramid 2017

Western Asia
2017
Population: 275,063,620

Year

-5 -1   2017  +1 +5

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Western Asia in 2017

In 2017, Western Asia had a total population of 275,063,620 people. A decade earlier, in 2007, the population was 218,895,332; it has grown by 25.7% since. With a median age of 26.8 years, Western Asia had a youth dependency ratio of 45.5 and an old-age dependency ratio of 8.0 per 100 people of working age. The near-vertical sides of the pyramid indicate a stationary age structure, with births roughly balancing the passage of cohorts into older age.

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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