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The number shown is the average annual growth rate for the period. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship—except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of the country of origin ...
(2011) World population growth rates between 1950 and 2050. The world population growth rate peaked in 1963 at 2.2% per year and subsequently declined. [9] In 2017, the estimated annual growth rate was 1.1%. [28] The CIA World Factbook gives the world annual birthrate, mortality rate, and growth rate as 1.86%, 0.78%, and 1.08% respectively. [29]
The 2022 projections from the United Nations Population Division (chart #1) show that annual world population growth peaked at 2.3% per year in 1963, has since dropped to 0.9% in 2023, equivalent to about 74 million people each year, and could drop even further to minus 0.1% by 2100. [5]
A chart of changes in world population growth rate from 1950–2010 (red) and predicted changes in world population growth rate from 2010–2050 (blue). The original was created 6 Dec 2003 by Securiger from data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Converted to SVG by Conscious.
One of the most basic and milestone models of population growth was the logistic model of population growth formulated by Pierre François Verhulst in 1838. The logistic model takes the shape of a sigmoid curve and describes the growth of a population as exponential, followed by a decrease in growth, and bound by a carrying capacity due to ...
Human geography; List of countries and dependencies by area; List of countries and dependencies by population; List of countries and dependencies by population density; List of countries by past and projected future population; List of countries by population in 1900; List of countries by population in 2005; List of countries by population in 2010
However, world population growth is unevenly distributed, with the total fertility rate ranging from the world's lowest of 0.8 in South Korea, [10] to the highest of 6.7 in Niger. [11] The United Nations estimated an annual population increase of 1.14% for the year of 2000. [12] The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5]
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.