World Population Pyramid 2009

World
2009
Population: 6,932,766,415

Year

-5 -1   2009  +1 +5

Country

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World in 2009

In 2009, the World had a total population of 6,932,766,416 people. Over the previous ten years the population grew by 13.9%, up from 6,089,006,340 in 1999. With a median age of 28.0 years, the World had a youth dependency ratio of 42.2 and an old-age dependency ratio of 11.6 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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