World Population Pyramid 2008

World
2008
Population: 6,844,457,662

Year

-5 -1   2008  +1 +5

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World in 2008

In 2008, the World had a total population of 6,844,457,662 people. That is 13.9% more than in 1998, when the population stood at 6,007,066,690. The median age was 27.8 years, and for every 100 people of working age (15–64) there were 42.6 children under 15 and 11.5 people aged 65 or over. 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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