World Population Pyramid 2001

World
2001
Population: 6,254,936,459

Year

-5 -1   2001  +1 +5

Country

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World in 2001

The population of the World in 2001 was 6,254,936,459. That is 15.4% more than in 1991, when the population stood at 5,418,735,892. Half of the population was younger than 26.3 years; 30.0% were children under 15 and 6.9% 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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