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The wall chart provides key demographic indicators for each development group, major area, region and country for the most recent period.

This report delineates Governments’ views and policies concerning population and development. In particular, it itemizes policies in the areas of population size and growth, population age structure...

This informative wall chart provides useful statistical data on world population. The data pertain to annual growth rates, crude birth rates, crude death rates, life expectancy and infant mortality.

This data booklet summarises and presents key fertility indicators on world fertility patterns from the latest population estimates and projections, World Population Prospects 2015. The relevant data...

The World Mortality 2015 provides a comprehensive set of mortality estimates for the world’s countries and their aggregates, along with an inventory of the availability of primary data for the...

The 2008 Revision builds on the 2006 Revision, and incorporates the results of both the 2000 round of national population censuses and the recent specialized surveys carried around the world. Those...

This report highlights the results of the 2008 Revision of the official world population estimates and projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs...

This report reviews trends in and prospects for urban and rural population growth and changes in the population of cities based on the 2007 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects. It discusses the...

World Population Ageing 2013 provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators of the ageing process by development regions, major areas, regions and...