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In the chart, we see the global population growth rate per year. This is based on historical UN estimates and its medium projection to 2100. Global population growth peaked in the 1960s at over 2% per year.
Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world's population living on less than $5 per day, by region; How do UN Population projections compare to the previous revision? Marriages per 1,000 people; Natural population growth with UN projections; Natural population growth rate vs. child mortality rate; Natural population growth ...
The chart shows that global population growth peaked in 1962 and 1963 with an annual growth rate of 2.2%; however, since then, world population growth has halved. 4 For the last half-century, the population growth rate has been declining.
Since 2019, the global population growth rate has fallen below 1%. That’s less than half its peak growth rate – of 2.3% – in the 1960s. As global fertility rates continue to fall (see below), this rate will continue to fall.
Average exponential rate of growth of the population over a given period. It is calculated as ln(P2/P1) where P1 and P2 are the populations on subsequent years. Available from 1700 to 2100, based on data and estimates from different sources.
Population growth is determined by births and deaths. Every country has seen very substantial changes in both: mortality and fertility rates have fallen across the world. However, declining mortality rates and declining fertility rates alone do not explain why populations grow.
Although the global population is expected to increase for many more decades, the population growth rate is slowing rapidly. This is driven by a dramatic reduction in fertility rates, which measure the average number of children per woman.
The huge majority of the world population – 80% — now live in countries with a fertility rate below 3 children per woman. 3 On the other end of the spectrum there are a few countries — home to around 10% of the world population — where women on average have still more than 5 children.
In pink, you see the annual population growth rate (that is, the percentage change in population per year) of the global population. It peaked around half a century ago. Peak population growth was reached in 1963 with an annual growth of 2.3%.
Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world's population living on less than $5 per day, by region; How do UN Population projections compare to the previous revision? Marriages per 1,000 people; Natural population growth with UN projections; Natural population growth rate vs. child mortality rate