World Population Pyramid 2012

World
2012
Population: 7,201,202,484

Year

-5 -1   2012  +1 +5

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World in 2012

In 2012, the World had a total population of 7,201,202,484 people. That is 13.6% more than in 2002, when the population stood at 6,337,730,342. With a median age of 28.7 years, the World had a youth dependency ratio of 41.3 and an old-age dependency ratio of 11.9 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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