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Population:
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6,928,198,253 (July 2011 est.)
top ten most populous countries (in millions): China 1,336.72; India 1,189.17; United States 313.23; Indonesia 245.61; Brazil 203.43; Pakistan 187.34; Bangladesh 158.57; Nigeria 155.22; Russia 138.74; Japan 126.48 (July 2011 est.) |
Population density:
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Urbanization:
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urban population: 50.5% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 1.85% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
ten largest urban agglomerations: Tokyo (Japan) - 36,669,000; Delhi (India) - 22,157,000; Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 20,262,000; Mumbai (India) - 20,041,000; Mexico City (Mexico) - 19,460,000; New York-Newark (US) - 19,425,000; Shanghai (China) - 16,575,000; Kolkata (India) - 15,552,000; Dhaka (Bangladesh) - 14,648,000; Karachi (Pakistan) - 13,125,000 (2009) |
Major cities - population:
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Age structure:
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0-14 years: 26.3% (male 944,987,919/female 884,268,378)
15-64 years: 65.9% (male 2,234,860,865/female 2,187,838,153)
65 years and over: 7.9% (male 227,164,176/female 289,048,221) (2011 est.) |
Median age:
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total: 28.4 years
male: 27.7 years
female: 29 years (2009 est.) |
Population growth rate:
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1.092%
note: this rate results in about 145 net additions to the worldwide population every minute or 2.4 every second (2011 est.) |
Birth rate:
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19.15 births/1,000 population
note: this rate results in about 252 worldwide births per minute or 4.2 births every second (2011 est.) |
Death rate:
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8.12 deaths/1,000 population
note: this rate results in about 107 worldwide deaths per minute or 1.8 deaths every second (July 2011 est.) |
Net migration rate:
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Sex ratio:
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at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2011 est.) |
Maternal mortality rate:
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Infant mortality rate:
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total: 41.61 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 43.52 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 39.55 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.) |
Life expectancy at birth:
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total population: 67.07 years
male: 65.21 years
female: 69.05 years (2011 est.) |
Total fertility rate:
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2.46 children born/woman (2011 est.) |
Health expenditures:
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Physicians density:
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Hospital bed density:
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2.94 beds/1,000 population (2005) |
Drinking water source:
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improved:
urban: 96% of population
rural: 78% of population
total: 87% of population
unimproved:
urban: 4% of population
rural: 22% of population
total: 13% of population (2008) |
Sanitation facility access:
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improved:
urban: 76% of population
rural: 45% of population
total: 61% of population
unimproved:
urban: 24% of population
rural: 55% of population
total: 39% of population (2008) |
Major infectious diseases:
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HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
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0.8% (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
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33.3 million (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
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1.8 million (2009 est.) |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
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Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
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Nationality:
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Ethnic groups:
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Religions:
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Christian 33.35% (of which Roman Catholic 16.83%, Protestant 6.08%, Orthodox 4.03%, Anglican 1.26%), Muslim 22.43%, Hindu 13.78%, Buddhist 7.13%, Sikh 0.36%, Jewish 0.21%, Baha'i 0.11%, other religions 11.17%, non-religious 9.42%, atheists 2.04% (2009 est.) |
Languages:
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Mandarin Chinese 12.44%, Spanish 4.85%, English 4.83%, Arabic 3.25%, Hindi 2.68%, Bengali 2.66%, Portuguese 2.62%, Russian 2.12%, Japanese 1.8%, Standard German 1.33%, Javanese 1.25% (2009 est.)
note: percents are for "first language" speakers only; the six UN languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, and Spanish (Castilian) - are the mother tongue or second language of about half of the world's population, and are the official languages in more than half the states in the world |
Literacy:
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definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 83.7%
male: 88.3%
female: 79.2%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 793 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005-09 est.) |
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
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total: 11 years
male: 11 years
female: 11 years (2008) |
Education expenditures - percent of GDP:
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4.4% of GDP (2007) |
People - note:
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