China’s population is actually expected to begin shrinking this year, as decades of low birthrates take their demographic toll. urged.Ĭhina is currently the world’s most populous country with 1.43 billion people, but that is expected to change by next year, with India, currently at 1.41 billion, surpassing it. “Countries with aging populations should take steps to adapt public programs to the growing proportion of older persons, including sound social security and pension systems, the establishment of universal health care and long-term care systems,” the U.N.
In Europe and North America, nearly 19% of the population is currently 65 or older, and that proportion is expected to rise to nearly 27% by 2050.īy contrast, sub-Saharan Africa is projected to have just 5% of its population in that age bracket by 2050. By 2050, the percentage of people 65 or older in Eastern and Southeastern Asia is expected to double from 13% to 26%. Some regions are aging faster than others.
Between 19, the number of people ages 65 or older tripled to 771 million and is on track to hit 994 million by 2030 and 1.6 billion by 2050. Unlike the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the population of the planet as a whole is trending older. “While the demographic circumstances underlying the dividend are conducive to rapid economic growth on a per capita basis, reaping its potential benefits requires significant investments in education and health, progress towards gender equality and the availability of gainful employment.” officials called a potential “demographic dividend,” with the share of working-age adults, defined as those between 26 and 64 years of age, rising as a share of the population.Ĭountries looking forward to an increase in the number of working age people as a share of the overall population, “have an opportunity to maximize the benefits of the dividend by investing in human capital formation,” the report found. Of those eight, the countries in sub-Saharan Africa will account for more than half of the world's population increase over the next 30 years, creating what U.N. Growth will be most concentrated among eight countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania. In many cases, those falling rates are driven in part by government policies. Two-thirds of all people currently live in regions where the fertility rate, measured in births per woman, has fallen below the replacement rate of 2.1. The move past the 8 billion mark masks the fact that globally, the population is growing at its slowest rate since the 1950s. The bulk of the population growth is expected to come from sub-Saharan Africa and Central and Southern Asia. Some regions, including Eastern and Southeastern Asia, are expected to shrink in population, while North America and Europe are expected to grow at very low rates. The projected growth is not evenly spread across the world. That growth will come with significant economic and environmental implications. Iran has population growth rate of 1.29 and the population is expected to double in 2070 from 2017.The United Nation's latest global population projection predicts there will be 8 billion people on the planet by November and that the population will gradually increase to 8.5 billion by 2050 and to more than 10 billion by 2080. Iran is home to the largest refugee population in the world. Iran experienced a rapid population growth between 19, with the population growing from 19 million to 75 million during the period. Iran completes the list of the top ten populous countries in Asia with a population of approximately 78.8 million people as of 2017, accounting for 1.74% of the total Asian population. Here are the ten most populated countries in Asia 10. The East Asia has the strongest Human Development Index of any region in the world.
India and China account for almost 50% of the continent’s population. The average relative annual growth of the Asian population is estimated at 1.16% and the population is expected to double in 58 years. Asia has a population density of 376 people per square miles with 49% of the population living in urban areas. The continent’s population accounts for 59.8% of the total world’s population. Asia is the most populated continent with a population of approximately 4.5 billion people as of 2017, based on the United Nations estimates.
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