Falling fertility rates, migration movements, and China’s population decline.
We can’t understand the world without understanding demographic change.How many people are alive today? How many are born; how many die? What do we expect populations to look like in the future?The United Nations updates its big dataset — the World Population Prospects — every two years to answer these questions. It just released its latest edition today.We’ve updated all of our population-related datasets and charts with this new release. You can explore all the trends for every country in our Population and Demography Data Explorer.In this article, we wanted to provide key insights from this latest wave of data.The world population is projected to peak slightly earlier than in previous projections
Falling fertility rates are driving this slowdown in population growth
China’s population may have already peaked
Life expectancy is returning to pre-pandemic levels
Six million people fled Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
Why Infertility?