Source: United Nations Population Division, World
Population Prospects:
Millions
The 1998 Revision, forthcoming
Impact of projections
World total 5,901,054
Afghanistan 21,354
Albania 3,119
Algeria 30,081
American Samoa 63
Andorra 72
Angola 12,092
Anguilla 8
Antigua and Barbuda 67
Argentina 36,123
Armenia 3,536
Aruba 94
Australia (1) 18,520
Austria 8,140
Azerbaijan 7,669
Bahamas 296
Bahrain 595
Bangladesh 124,774
Barbados 268
Belarus 10,315
Belgium 10,141
Belize 230
Benin 5,781
Bermuda 64
Bhutan 2,004
Bolivia 7,957
Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,675
Botswana 1,570
Brazil 165,851
British Virgin Islands 20
Brunei Darussalam 315
Bulgaria 8,336
Burkina Faso 11,305
Burundi 6,457
Cambodia 10,716
Cameroon 14,305
Canada 30,563
Cape Verde 408
Cayman Islands 36
Central African Republic 3,485
Chad 7,270
Channel Islands 151
Chile 14,824
China 1,255,698
China, Hong Kong SAR 6,660
Colombia 40,803
Comoros 658
Congo 2,785
Cook Islands 19
Costa Rica 3,841
Côte d'Ivoire 14,292
Croatia 4,481
Cuba 11,116
Cyprus 771
Czech Republic 10,282
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea 23,348
Dem. Republic of the Congo 49,139
Denmark 5,270
Djibouti 623
Dominica 71
Dominican Republic 8,232
East Timor 857
Ecuador 12,175
Egypt 65,978
El Salvador 6,032
Equatorial Guinea 431
Eritrea 3,577
Estonia 1,429
Ethiopia 59,649
Faeroe Islands 43
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 2
Fiji 796
Finland 5,154
France 58,683
French Guiana 167
French Polynesia 227
Gabon 1,167
Gambia 1,229
Gaza Strip 1,036
Georgia 5,059
Germany 82,133
Ghana 19,162
Gibraltar 25
Greece 10,600
Greenland 56
Grenada 93
Guadeloupe 443
Guam 161
Guatemala 10,801
Guinea 7,337
Guinea-Bissau 1,161
Guyana 850
Haiti 7,952
Holy See (2)
Honduras 6,147
Hungary 10,116
Iceland 276
India 982,223
Indonesia 206,338
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 65,758
Iraq 21,800
Ireland 3,681
Isle of Man 77
Israel 5,984
Italy 57,369
Jamaica 2,538
Japan 126,281
Jordan 6,304
Kazakstan 16,319
Kenya 29,008
Kiribati 81
Kuwait 1,811
Kyrgyzstan 4,643
Lao People's Dem. Republic 5,163
Latvia 2,424
Lebanon 3,191
Lesotho 2,062
Liberia 2,666
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 5,339
Liechtenstein 32
Lithuania 3,694
Luxembourg 422
Macau 459
Madagascar 15,057
Malawi 10,346
Malaysia 21,410
Maldives 271
Mali 10,694
Malta 384
Marshall Islands 60
Martinique 389
Mauritania 2,529
Mauritius (3) 1,141
Mexico 95,831
Micronesia, (Fed. States of) 114
Monaco 33
Mongolia 2,579
Montserrat 11
Morocco 27,377
Mozambique 18,880
Myanmar 44,497
Namibia 1,660
Nauru 11
Nepal 22,847
Netherlands 15,678
Netherlands Antilles 213
New Caledonia 206
New Zealand 3,796
Nicaragua 4,807
Niger 10,078
Nigeria 106,409
Niue 2
Northern Mariana Islands 70
Norway 4,419
Oman 2,382
Pakistan 148,166
Palau 19
Panama 2,767
Papua New Guinea 4,600
Paraguay 5,222
Peru 24,797
Philippines 72,944
Pitcairn (4)
Poland 38,718
Portugal 9,869
Puerto Rico 3,810
Qatar 579
Republic of Korea 46,109
Republic of Moldova 4,378
Reunion 682
Romania 22,474
Russian Federation 147,434
Rwanda 6,604
Saint Helena (5) 6
Saint Kitts and Nevis 39
Saint Lucia 150
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 7
Saint Vincent and Grenadines 112
Samoa 174
San Marino 26
Sao Tome and Principe 141
Saudi Arabia 20,181
Senegal 9,003
Seychelles 76
Sierra Leone 4,568
Singapore 3,476
Slovakia 5,377
Slovenia 1,993
Solomon Islands 417
Somalia 9,237
South Africa 39,357
Spain 39,628
Sri Lanka 18,455
Sudan 28,292
Suriname 414
Swaziland 952
Sweden 8,875
Switzerland 7,299
Syrian Arab Republic 15,333
Tajikistan 6,015
TFYR Macedonia (6) 1,999
Thailand 60,300
Togo 4,397
Tokelau 1
Tonga 98
Trinidad and Tobago 1,283
Tunisia 9,335
Turkey 64,479
Turkmenistan 4,309
Turks and Caicos Islands 16
Tuvalu 11
Uganda 20,554
Ukraine 50,861
United Arab Emirates 2,353
United Kingdom 58,649
United Rep. of Tanzania 32,102
United States of America 274,028
United States Virgin Islands 94
Uruguay 3,289
Uzbekistan 23,574
Vanuatu 182
Venezuela 23,242
Viet Nam 77,562
Wallis and Futuna Islands 14
Western Sahara 275
Yemen 16,887
Yugoslavia 10,635
Zambia 8,781
Zimbabwe 11,377
Below are some of the highlights of these world population estimates and projections.
1.World population currently
stands at 5.9 billion persons and is growing at 1.33 per cent per
year, or an
annual net addition of 78 million people. World population in the mid 21st
century
is expected
to be in the range of 7.3 to 10.7 billion. The medium-fertility projection,
which is
usually considered
as "most likely", indicates that world population will reach 8.9 billion
in
2050.
2.The world population is
expected to reach the 6 billion mark in 1999. From 1804, when the
world passed
the 1 billion mark, it took 123 years to reach 2 billion people in 1927,
33 years
to attain 3
billion in 1960, 14 years to reach 4 billion in 1974, 13 years to attain
5 billion in
1987 and 12
years to reach 6 billion in 1999.
3.The global average fertility
level now stands at 2.7 births per woman; in contrast, in the early
l950s, the average
number was 5 births per woman. Fertility is now declining in all regions
of
the world. For
example, during the last 25 years, the number of children per couple has
fallen
from 6.6 to
5.l in Africa, from 5.1 to 2.6 in Asia, and from 5.0 to 2.7 in Latin America
and the
Caribbean.
4.The 1998 Revision demonstrates
a devastating mortality toll from HIV/AIDS. For instance, in
the 29 hardest-hit
African countries, the average life expectancy at birth is currently 7
years
less than it
would have been in the absence of AIDS. The highest prevalence of HIV in
the
world is currently
in Botswana, where one of every 4 adults is infected. Life expectancy at
birth
in Botswana
is anticipated to fall from 61 years in 1990-1995 to 41 years by 2000-2005.
Based on the
United Nations projections, Botswana's population by 2025 may be 23 per
cent
smaller than
it would have been in the absence of AIDS. Nevertheless, because fertility
is
high, the population
of Botswana is still expected to nearly double between 1995 and 2050.
5.The results from the 1998
Revision shed new light on the global population ageing
processes. For
the first time, the numbers of octogenarians, nonagenarians and centenarians
are estimated
and projected for all countries of the world. In 1998, 66 million persons
in the
world were aged
80 or over, that is about 1 of every 100 persons. This number is expected
to
increase almost
6 fold by 2050 to reach 370 million persons. In addition, in 1998, around
135
thousand persons
in the world are estimated to be aged 100 or over. The number of
centenarians
is projected to increase 16-fold by 2050 to reach 2.2 million persons.