World Population Pyramid 2018

World
2018
Population: 7,729,902,780

Year

-5 -1   2018  +1 +5

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World in 2018

The population of the World in 2018 was 7,729,902,780. That is 12.9% more than in 2008, when the population stood at 6,844,457,662. The median age was 30.0 years, and for every 100 people of working age (15–64) there were 40.3 children under 15 and 13.7 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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