UN country group · UN WPP 2024

Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand population

Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand population now

1,165,935,345

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 1,160,129,576

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.16563 billion
Median age: 42.6
Aged 65+: 20.5%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2039

male female projection · one cell = 200,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand in numbers

1,160,129,576 people lived in Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand in mid-2023: 14.3% of the world's people. That is 1.6 times its 1950 population of 727 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2039 at 1.17 billion, then falling to 1.12 billion by 2100.

2020 was the last year births kept up with deaths. Every year since has had more deaths than births, as does every projected year to 2100. The population still grows until 2039, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 28.9 in 1950 and 41.8 in 2023; the projection has 48.1 in 2100. 19.2% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 30.3% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2012 at 757 million; in 2023 it was 750 million.

Population, mid-2023: 1,160,129,576
Share of the world, 2023: 14.3%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.12% · +1,350,489 people
Births, 2023: 10,716,829
Deaths, 2023: 11,803,563
Net migration, 2023: +3,428,205
Children per woman, 2023: 1.48
Median age, 2023: 41.8 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 79.3 years
Population, mid-1950: 726,964,824
Projected, mid-2050: 1,167,869,901
Projected, mid-2100: 1,116,172,647

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand, 1950–2100

Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	722,951,034	16,464,977	8,161,114	2.78	63.5
1951	estimate	730,978,615	16,489,944	8,343,008	2.77	63.5
1952	estimate	738,691,866	16,594,357	8,046,922	2.79	64.6
1953	estimate	746,833,242	16,607,772	8,003,740	2.78	65.3
1954	estimate	755,450,832	16,791,352	7,794,310	2.81	66.1
1955	estimate	764,276,295	16,855,488	7,762,924	2.81	66.7
1956	estimate	773,298,828	16,967,792	7,703,269	2.83	67.6
1957	estimate	782,346,623	17,157,828	7,782,256	2.85	67.7
1958	estimate	792,202,362	17,216,824	7,562,023	2.85	68.5
1959	estimate	802,092,550	17,322,936	7,635,127	2.86	68.8
1960	estimate	811,811,819	17,308,841	7,709,757	2.85	69.1
1961	estimate	821,648,438	17,203,838	7,657,395	2.83	69.5
1962	estimate	831,603,819	16,785,269	7,947,060	2.77	69.5
1963	estimate	841,254,496	16,603,930	8,051,233	2.74	69.6
1964	estimate	850,585,653	16,307,608	7,889,853	2.69	70.1
1965	estimate	859,618,095	15,681,925	8,119,928	2.59	70.2
1966	estimate	868,056,566	15,364,087	8,205,672	2.52	70.3
1967	estimate	876,145,954	15,264,106	8,294,250	2.48	70.4
1968	estimate	883,537,993	15,062,404	8,641,341	2.42	70.2
1969	estimate	890,946,521	15,088,970	8,837,757	2.39	70.2
1970	estimate	898,321,959	15,136,467	8,814,470	2.36	70.5
1971	estimate	905,197,487	15,055,984	8,878,226	2.30	70.7
1972	estimate	913,299,091	14,610,856	8,956,175	2.19	70.9
1973	estimate	920,550,792	14,279,620	9,061,070	2.09	71.0
1974	estimate	927,295,281	14,413,943	9,063,088	2.07	71.2
1975	estimate	933,725,443	14,260,941	9,193,135	2.00	71.3
1976	estimate	939,583,166	14,243,739	9,287,833	1.97	71.5
1977	estimate	945,544,177	14,325,201	9,247,565	1.95	71.7
1978	estimate	951,540,889	14,301,844	9,411,624	1.92	71.8
1979	estimate	957,313,590	14,451,063	9,476,012	1.91	72.0
1980	estimate	963,371,018	14,581,839	9,670,188	1.90	72.0
1981	estimate	969,926,400	14,499,353	9,685,957	1.87	72.2
1982	estimate	975,793,975	14,611,577	9,651,690	1.87	72.6
1983	estimate	981,534,611	14,636,088	9,869,032	1.86	72.6
1984	estimate	987,314,586	14,551,875	9,902,458	1.84	72.8
1985	estimate	992,924,355	14,522,027	10,058,437	1.83	72.9
1986	estimate	998,629,908	14,622,209	9,894,726	1.84	73.4
1987	estimate	1,004,619,220	14,628,020	9,874,781	1.84	73.6
1988	estimate	1,010,599,085	14,581,135	10,012,067	1.84	73.7
1989	estimate	1,016,849,829	14,372,799	10,065,659	1.82	73.8
1990	estimate	1,022,725,206	14,238,853	10,217,200	1.81	73.8
1991	estimate	1,029,164,898	13,791,502	10,341,935	1.76	73.8
1992	estimate	1,034,967,678	13,331,317	10,533,799	1.71	73.7
1993	estimate	1,038,882,056	12,791,430	11,088,816	1.66	73.1
1994	estimate	1,042,892,531	12,518,757	11,196,283	1.63	73.1
1995	estimate	1,047,400,831	12,235,925	11,282,162	1.60	73.3
1996	estimate	1,050,473,368	12,105,661	11,120,903	1.59	73.8
1997	estimate	1,053,835,938	11,967,715	10,967,963	1.57	74.3
1998	estimate	1,056,877,620	11,913,767	10,961,522	1.57	74.5
1999	estimate	1,059,021,680	11,785,983	11,207,136	1.56	74.4
2000	estimate	1,061,921,763	11,901,976	11,203,440	1.58	74.5
2001	estimate	1,065,386,715	11,815,768	11,205,346	1.57	74.7
2002	estimate	1,068,838,657	11,878,332	11,388,763	1.58	74.7
2003	estimate	1,073,997,113	12,087,622	11,527,681	1.61	74.8
2004	estimate	1,078,179,598	12,246,101	11,219,491	1.63	75.2
2005	estimate	1,082,663,072	12,284,564	11,346,912	1.63	75.3
2006	estimate	1,086,854,171	12,575,028	11,094,829	1.66	75.9
2007	estimate	1,091,289,294	12,862,351	11,048,127	1.70	76.2
2008	estimate	1,096,983,464	13,127,891	11,115,823	1.73	76.5
2009	estimate	1,102,471,073	13,060,117	10,997,673	1.72	76.9
2010	estimate	1,107,526,879	12,959,808	11,084,461	1.71	77.1
2011	estimate	1,112,514,563	12,788,173	10,938,165	1.68	77.5
2012	estimate	1,117,503,019	12,877,656	11,061,244	1.70	77.7
2013	estimate	1,122,271,892	12,693,884	11,046,119	1.67	78.0
2014	estimate	1,127,110,421	12,766,232	11,035,320	1.69	78.2
2015	estimate	1,132,158,634	12,691,059	11,326,972	1.68	78.2
2016	estimate	1,137,867,821	12,639,534	11,231,293	1.68	78.5
2017	estimate	1,143,544,279	12,223,897	11,357,905	1.62	78.7
2018	estimate	1,148,679,174	11,934,186	11,479,478	1.59	78.8
2019	estimate	1,153,446,297	11,637,667	11,463,403	1.55	79.0
2020	estimate	1,157,904,326	11,305,615	13,102,589	1.52	77.7
2021	estimate	1,158,239,833	11,319,018	13,623,922	1.53	77.1
2022	estimate	1,158,599,337	10,989,397	12,583,747	1.50	78.3
2023	estimate	1,158,958,837	10,716,829	11,803,563	1.48	79.3
2024	estimate	1,161,300,315	10,653,915	12,020,126	1.48	79.5
2025	projection	1,163,311,840	10,596,359	12,102,972	1.48	79.7
2026	projection	1,164,994,480	10,538,609	12,193,115	1.49	79.8
2027	projection	1,166,257,038	10,489,145	12,280,283	1.49	80.0
2028	projection	1,167,349,138	10,462,771	12,376,116	1.50	80.2
2029	projection	1,168,338,370	10,445,078	12,471,860	1.50	80.3
2030	projection	1,169,122,746	10,443,556	12,569,425	1.50	80.5
2031	projection	1,169,795,294	10,452,868	12,679,274	1.51	80.6
2032	projection	1,170,308,445	10,482,774	12,787,817	1.51	80.8
2033	projection	1,170,790,336	10,528,878	12,903,040	1.52	80.9
2034	projection	1,171,201,925	10,582,973	13,023,977	1.52	81.1
2035	projection	1,171,578,777	10,653,238	13,144,043	1.52	81.2
2036	projection	1,171,859,366	10,734,684	13,263,759	1.52	81.4
2037	projection	1,172,072,336	10,804,757	13,385,121	1.53	81.5
2038	projection	1,172,230,445	10,878,366	13,505,940	1.53	81.7
2039	projection	1,172,364,759	10,946,899	13,630,826	1.53	81.8
2040	projection	1,172,363,080	10,998,850	13,742,863	1.53	82.0
2041	projection	1,172,348,485	11,042,921	13,855,009	1.53	82.2
2042	projection	1,172,296,361	11,068,483	13,959,401	1.53	82.3
2043	projection	1,172,229,510	11,083,000	14,057,520	1.54	82.5
2044	projection	1,172,005,835	11,069,604	14,146,783	1.54	82.6
2045	projection	1,171,684,668	11,047,208	14,222,062	1.54	82.8
2046	projection	1,171,281,688	10,994,195	14,294,891	1.54	82.9
2047	projection	1,170,760,517	10,927,478	14,359,096	1.54	83.0
2048	projection	1,170,109,369	10,851,065	14,414,342	1.55	83.2
2049	projection	1,169,327,991	10,759,711	14,456,836	1.55	83.3
2050	projection	1,168,382,851	10,669,177	14,497,021	1.55	83.5
2051	projection	1,167,356,951	10,572,679	14,524,791	1.55	83.6
2052	projection	1,166,222,442	10,476,159	14,542,922	1.55	83.7
2053	projection	1,164,981,059	10,387,645	14,556,393	1.56	83.8
2054	projection	1,163,549,254	10,299,638	14,559,768	1.56	84.0
2055	projection	1,162,003,854	10,220,374	14,550,979	1.56	84.1
2056	projection	1,160,327,134	10,152,688	14,540,480	1.56	84.3
2057	projection	1,158,623,479	10,095,943	14,526,479	1.56	84.4
2058	projection	1,156,946,920	10,046,005	14,502,583	1.57	84.5
2059	projection	1,155,290,876	10,013,023	14,477,814	1.57	84.6
2060	projection	1,153,574,030	9,991,820	14,438,899	1.57	84.8
2061	projection	1,151,870,146	9,978,366	14,401,573	1.57	84.9
2062	projection	1,150,215,784	9,974,426	14,363,256	1.57	85.0
2063	projection	1,148,613,170	9,979,121	14,323,672	1.57	85.2
2064	projection	1,147,044,710	9,995,010	14,280,390	1.57	85.3
2065	projection	1,145,481,422	10,016,994	14,241,269	1.57	85.4
2066	projection	1,143,989,619	10,041,032	14,204,477	1.57	85.5
2067	projection	1,142,611,798	10,070,158	14,172,849	1.58	85.7
2068	projection	1,141,341,015	10,101,931	14,147,073	1.58	85.8
2069	projection	1,140,082,667	10,135,418	14,113,253	1.58	85.9
2070	projection	1,138,894,792	10,169,365	14,087,414	1.58	86.1
2071	projection	1,137,714,962	10,189,044	14,059,016	1.58	86.2
2072	projection	1,136,612,000	10,212,476	14,035,469	1.58	86.3
2073	projection	1,135,530,204	10,224,804	14,007,637	1.58	86.4
2074	projection	1,134,474,116	10,236,569	13,976,568	1.58	86.6
2075	projection	1,133,439,174	10,237,196	13,944,846	1.58	86.7
2076	projection	1,132,560,338	10,233,898	13,911,883	1.58	86.8
2077	projection	1,131,682,407	10,226,268	13,870,619	1.58	86.9
2078	projection	1,130,765,671	10,207,746	13,821,231	1.59	87.1
2079	projection	1,129,912,775	10,182,567	13,772,907	1.59	87.2
2080	projection	1,129,035,490	10,150,361	13,716,525	1.59	87.3
2081	projection	1,128,194,343	10,111,397	13,653,210	1.59	87.4
2082	projection	1,127,523,711	10,073,406	13,586,034	1.59	87.5
2083	projection	1,126,766,894	10,032,598	13,514,790	1.59	87.7
2084	projection	1,126,057,832	9,990,573	13,434,392	1.59	87.8
2085	projection	1,125,336,607	9,950,909	13,356,709	1.59	87.9
2086	projection	1,124,563,800	9,911,906	13,278,312	1.59	88.0
2087	projection	1,123,882,916	9,875,550	13,206,203	1.59	88.1
2088	projection	1,123,259,898	9,843,010	13,131,663	1.60	88.2
2089	projection	1,122,761,145	9,818,744	13,065,484	1.60	88.3
2090	projection	1,122,191,725	9,798,485	13,009,967	1.60	88.4
2091	projection	1,121,611,194	9,773,451	12,966,718	1.60	88.5
2092	projection	1,121,122,467	9,761,932	12,931,125	1.60	88.7
2093	projection	1,120,616,590	9,749,100	12,914,549	1.60	88.8
2094	projection	1,120,130,212	9,743,003	12,910,156	1.60	88.9
2095	projection	1,119,653,317	9,743,885	12,921,651	1.60	89.0
2096	projection	1,119,119,747	9,744,631	12,945,939	1.60	89.1
2097	projection	1,118,506,250	9,753,570	12,974,103	1.60	89.2
2098	projection	1,117,926,958	9,757,147	13,007,654	1.60	89.3
2099	projection	1,117,270,086	9,765,420	13,046,299	1.60	89.4
2100	projection	1,116,569,583	9,768,167	13,077,750	1.60	89.6

AGG · membership

What Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand is

Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand is one of the UN's analytical groupings. This dataset carries the group's totals, not its membership, so its countries are not listed here.

Show the numbers: Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand, mid-2026, by single year of age

Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	5,442,410	5,166,070
1	5,504,610	5,226,880
2	5,558,160	5,278,510
3	5,655,330	5,371,980
4	5,816,170	5,527,800
5	5,896,240	5,605,740
6	5,981,750	5,688,410
7	6,158,160	5,855,040
8	6,329,620	6,013,180
9	6,564,280	6,232,040
10	6,724,810	6,378,180
11	6,768,770	6,416,420
12	6,795,020	6,441,110
13	6,840,980	6,479,110
14	6,874,180	6,507,210
15	6,871,660	6,511,760
16	6,945,800	6,587,830
17	7,072,320	6,709,380
18	7,132,680	6,772,380
19	7,109,620	6,755,970
20	7,072,560	6,727,490
21	7,062,740	6,721,220
22	7,053,470	6,709,380
23	6,993,980	6,644,700
24	6,950,920	6,591,190
25	7,013,250	6,630,800
26	7,032,130	6,626,110
27	7,013,420	6,602,120
28	7,040,260	6,635,440
29	7,077,020	6,681,970
30	7,165,160	6,778,360
31	7,282,620	6,906,360
32	7,420,930	7,058,550
33	7,639,190	7,295,140
34	7,902,920	7,573,140
35	8,161,010	7,838,620
36	8,278,050	7,985,930
37	8,277,910	8,014,740
38	8,293,800	8,053,890
39	8,284,660	8,079,560
40	8,259,340	8,085,310
41	8,180,840	8,035,930
42	8,134,290	7,998,820
43	8,121,240	8,000,460
44	8,011,920	7,937,620
45	8,022,010	7,988,870
46	8,000,330	7,985,010
47	7,810,440	7,811,600
48	7,699,360	7,725,330
49	7,616,110	7,668,480
50	7,552,540	7,640,640
51	7,518,860	7,630,360
52	7,432,670	7,563,770
53	7,409,510	7,576,860
54	7,493,210	7,722,880
55	7,591,360	7,832,290
56	7,578,220	7,795,120
57	7,393,550	7,692,110
58	7,277,970	7,640,470
59	7,239,960	7,627,730
60	7,262,060	7,703,870
61	7,348,970	7,858,430
62	7,338,990	7,926,620
63	7,243,830	7,881,930
64	7,134,090	7,870,920
65	7,028,760	7,879,040
66	6,854,990	7,791,610
67	6,613,770	7,617,650
68	6,379,500	7,439,660
69	6,130,090	7,274,300
70	5,880,800	7,107,780
71	5,639,280	6,917,410
72	5,346,880	6,638,670
73	5,070,800	6,394,450
74	4,821,180	6,171,840
75	4,596,970	5,946,680
76	4,422,750	5,802,610
77	4,168,290	5,503,850
78	3,922,240	5,209,890
79	3,585,840	4,835,040
80	3,005,930	4,101,800
81	2,617,240	3,617,740
82	2,426,540	3,413,860
83	2,198,200	3,210,180
84	1,993,920	3,084,120
85	1,816,080	2,962,530
86	1,624,020	2,772,190
87	1,417,070	2,507,970
88	1,215,400	2,225,500
89	1,010,890	1,919,130
90	821,214	1,616,700
91	650,370	1,334,350
92	500,092	1,076,350
93	386,226	887,083
94	296,047	725,454
95	219,521	569,350
96	155,944	432,486
97	105,420	316,236
98	68,722	221,878
99	42,970	150,474
100+	57,592	246,986

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand

Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2012: 756,981,000 people aged 15–64, against 749,569,000 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

25 children

30 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 26 years: 1984–1990 and 1996–2014.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand gains 2,817,019 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 650,406 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 100,000 people a year

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more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 4,668,917 (2002), and a loss of 433,668 (1951).

This is a group of countries, so its figure counts only moves across its own outer edge: someone moving from one country inside it to another does not appear.

How migration works everywhere

AGG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand

Of every 100 babies born in Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand in 2023, 3 had a mother under 20, 73 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 24 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 7 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
7 · 77 · 16

2023
3 · 73 · 24

2050 · projected
1 · 70 · 29

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 10,716,829
Average age when women have a baby: 30.3 years; 28.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 10; 37 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	8,673	21,589	14,726	4,247	999	923
15–19	1,104,500	1,670,408	1,002,304	318,722	122,333	118,835
20–24	4,969,890	5,264,442	2,900,683	1,484,925	908,722	910,204
25–29	5,062,967	4,367,977	3,495,117	2,826,674	2,730,172	2,660,374
30–34	2,696,550	1,820,180	2,927,056	3,506,710	3,873,334	3,491,255
35–39	1,878,317	873,451	1,305,920	2,055,805	2,377,497	2,023,732
40–44	693,265	220,480	244,383	479,672	599,039	508,459
45–49	49,822	20,518	11,153	39,441	56,444	53,765
50–54	993	1,896	634	633	637	620
All babies	16,464,977	14,260,941	11,901,976	10,716,829	10,669,177	9,768,167

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual tables for regions and groups (estimates to 2023, then the medium projection), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UN WUP 2025 · Maddison Project 2020 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.