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Population:
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6,677,563,921 (July 2008 est.) |
Population density:
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Age structure:
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0-14 years: 27% (male 933,716,943/female 877,734,429)
15-64 years: 65% (male 2,205,342,972/female 2,153,959,605)
65 years and over: 8% (male 222,346,221/female 284,463,751) (2008 est.) |
Median age:
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total:
male: 27.4 years
female: 28.7 years (2008 est.) |
Population growth rate:
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1.159% (2008 est.) |
Birth rate:
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19.97 births/1,000 population (2008 est.) |
Death rate:
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8.32 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.) |
Net migration rate:
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Sex ratio:
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at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2008 est.) |
Infant mortality rate:
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total: 42.64 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 45.42 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 39.67 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.) |
Life expectancy at birth:
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total population: 66.12 years
male: 64.18 years
female: 68.2 years (2008 est.) |
Total fertility rate:
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2.58 children born/woman (2008 est.) |
Major infectious diseases:
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HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
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NA |
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
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NA |
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
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NA |
Nationality:
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Ethnic groups:
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Religions:
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Christians 33.32% (of which Roman Catholics 16.99%, Protestants 5.78%, Orthodox 3.53%, Anglicans 1.25%), Muslims 21.01%, Hindus 13.26%, Buddhists 5.84%, Sikhs 0.35%, Jews 0.23%, Baha'is 0.12%, other religions 11.78%, non-religious 11.77%, atheists 2.32% (2007 est.) |
Languages:
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Mandarin Chinese 13.22%, Spanish 4.88%, English 4.68%, Arabic 3.12%, Hindi 2.74%, Portuguese 2.69%, Bengali 2.59%, Russian 2.2%, Japanese 1.85%, Standard German 1.44%, Wu Chinese 1.17% (2005 est.)
note: percents are for "first language" speakers only |
Literacy:
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definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.) |
People - note:
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