World Population Pyramid 2000

World
2000
Population: 6,171,702,993

Year

-5 -1   2000  +1 +5

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World in 2000

The population of the World in 2000 was 6,171,702,993. Over the previous ten years the population grew by 15.8%, up from 5,327,803,110 in 1990. Half of the population was younger than 26.1 years; 30.4% were children under 15 and 6.8% were 65 or older. The broad-based, expansive shape of the pyramid points to high fertility and strong population growth.

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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