UN country group · UN WPP 2024

High-and-upper-middle-income countries population

High-and-upper-middle-income countries population now

4,097,737,004

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: 4,072,464,554

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 4.09589 billion
Median age: 39.2
Aged 65+: 15.4%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2038

male female projection · one cell = 500,000 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

High-and-upper-middle-income countries in numbers

In mid-2023 there were 4,072,464,554 people in High-and-upper-middle-income countries, and 50.3% of the world's people. That is 2.4 times its 1950 population of 1.66 billion.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2038 at 4.14 billion, then falling to 3.28 billion by 2100.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2033; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it. The population still grows until 2038, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 24.6 in 1950 and 38.0 in 2023; the projection has 50.2 in 2100. 14.4% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 32.3% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2027 at 2.76 billion.

Population, mid-2023: 4,072,464,554
Share of the world, 2023: 50.3%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.33% · +13,407,564 people
Births, 2023: 39,989,552
Deaths, 2023: 33,967,518
Net migration, 2023: +4,157,807
Children per woman, 2023: 1.47
Median age, 2023: 38.0 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 77.8 years
Population, mid-1950: 1,664,171,152
Projected, mid-2050: 4,087,248,860
Projected, mid-2100: 3,278,514,613

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: High-and-upper-middle-income countries, 1950–2100

High-and-upper-middle-income countries: 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	1,650,796,780	54,918,721	28,121,007	4.34	51.0
1951	estimate	1,677,545,525	55,026,671	27,915,372	4.29	51.7
1952	estimate	1,704,432,971	58,808,029	27,369,251	4.54	52.8
1953	estimate	1,735,653,961	57,790,446	27,154,324	4.40	53.4
1954	estimate	1,766,456,260	59,640,850	26,675,095	4.49	54.2
1955	estimate	1,799,297,989	60,366,488	26,622,959	4.49	54.8
1956	estimate	1,832,975,281	59,506,390	26,365,604	4.38	55.4
1957	estimate	1,865,967,269	62,692,857	26,506,053	4.56	55.8
1958	estimate	1,902,660,848	60,476,402	26,038,416	4.34	56.4
1959	estimate	1,937,118,896	57,017,308	30,330,361	4.05	52.5
1960	estimate	1,963,784,003	56,390,266	34,029,382	3.96	49.4
1961	estimate	1,986,257,658	54,274,650	29,174,235	3.78	53.6
1962	estimate	2,011,395,239	64,239,024	25,140,893	4.44	58.3
1963	estimate	2,050,888,420	71,073,217	25,790,024	4.87	58.7
1964	estimate	2,096,498,261	67,727,429	25,563,840	4.59	59.3
1965	estimate	2,139,041,509	67,536,461	26,165,374	4.52	59.1
1966	estimate	2,180,843,569	66,127,628	25,644,983	4.37	59.9
1967	estimate	2,221,991,300	64,907,830	25,198,414	4.21	60.6
1968	estimate	2,261,793,804	68,904,017	25,535,431	4.39	60.9
1969	estimate	2,306,198,488	68,412,037	25,575,372	4.26	61.3
1970	estimate	2,350,209,194	69,259,291	25,404,999	4.21	61.8
1971	estimate	2,394,567,348	67,677,508	25,025,840	4.00	62.5
1972	estimate	2,438,630,040	66,379,786	24,762,913	3.81	63.0
1973	estimate	2,481,324,102	65,350,805	24,539,483	3.64	63.5
1974	estimate	2,523,129,742	63,423,761	24,231,670	3.42	64.0
1975	estimate	2,562,915,270	60,796,465	24,003,659	3.18	64.5
1976	estimate	2,599,886,937	59,773,306	24,042,786	3.03	64.8
1977	estimate	2,636,277,118	58,248,632	23,475,238	2.87	65.5
1978	estimate	2,671,846,423	58,327,366	23,487,846	2.80	65.9
1979	estimate	2,707,400,806	59,621,042	23,471,958	2.80	66.3
1980	estimate	2,743,970,148	60,424,912	23,749,501	2.77	66.6
1981	estimate	2,781,933,335	61,341,011	23,720,517	2.75	67.0
1982	estimate	2,820,007,883	63,436,246	23,746,328	2.78	67.5
1983	estimate	2,860,048,192	60,741,905	23,848,259	2.60	67.8
1984	estimate	2,897,723,999	61,853,911	23,862,128	2.59	68.2
1985	estimate	2,936,512,023	62,915,080	24,105,889	2.57	68.5
1986	estimate	2,976,161,597	64,747,511	24,008,216	2.59	68.9
1987	estimate	3,018,194,679	66,234,799	24,095,369	2.59	69.3
1988	estimate	3,061,507,051	65,110,847	24,365,825	2.50	69.5
1989	estimate	3,103,783,667	65,617,687	24,467,275	2.47	69.8
1990	estimate	3,146,391,357	66,214,050	24,819,077	2.45	69.9
1991	estimate	3,188,625,232	60,400,081	24,718,296	2.20	70.3
1992	estimate	3,225,886,224	58,309,629	24,810,798	2.11	70.5
1993	estimate	3,259,414,600	56,962,119	25,323,820	2.05	70.6
1994	estimate	3,292,855,463	56,025,001	25,501,569	2.00	70.8
1995	estimate	3,324,741,771	55,240,667	25,614,089	1.97	71.1
1996	estimate	3,355,241,282	54,357,418	25,459,856	1.94	71.5
1997	estimate	3,385,396,967	53,535,818	25,424,045	1.91	71.9
1998	estimate	3,414,435,391	52,817,958	25,590,265	1.88	72.2
1999	estimate	3,442,111,278	52,132,444	26,069,269	1.86	72.3
2000	estimate	3,469,944,093	52,678,579	26,207,917	1.88	72.7
2001	estimate	3,498,886,177	51,337,068	26,333,942	1.83	72.9
2002	estimate	3,526,442,373	50,905,580	26,706,350	1.81	73.2
2003	estimate	3,554,625,877	50,786,722	27,106,448	1.81	73.3
2004	estimate	3,581,175,137	51,235,327	27,192,202	1.82	73.6
2005	estimate	3,607,972,783	51,476,356	27,388,755	1.82	74.0
2006	estimate	3,635,504,402	52,089,557	27,380,454	1.84	74.4
2007	estimate	3,661,773,065	52,765,926	27,520,730	1.86	74.7
2008	estimate	3,690,287,179	53,543,237	27,951,304	1.88	74.9
2009	estimate	3,720,175,058	53,767,827	27,944,085	1.89	75.3
2010	estimate	3,749,598,285	53,634,269	28,269,762	1.88	75.6
2011	estimate	3,778,605,946	53,639,061	28,454,528	1.88	75.9
2012	estimate	3,807,659,836	55,255,928	28,758,442	1.93	76.2
2013	estimate	3,839,462,188	53,979,734	28,985,865	1.89	76.5
2014	estimate	3,869,748,688	54,555,595	29,237,311	1.91	76.7
2015	estimate	3,900,587,002	53,035,972	29,815,141	1.86	76.8
2016	estimate	3,930,538,653	53,392,938	30,126,858	1.88	77.0
2017	estimate	3,958,412,771	52,592,576	30,739,053	1.86	77.2
2018	estimate	3,985,571,261	49,183,644	30,877,480	1.75	77.5
2019	estimate	4,008,959,058	47,727,643	31,201,193	1.71	77.7
2020	estimate	4,030,140,745	44,129,913	34,536,710	1.59	76.8
2021	estimate	4,041,945,499	42,487,898	36,640,710	1.54	76.2
2022	estimate	4,050,739,395	40,924,368	34,388,975	1.50	77.3
2023	estimate	4,067,374,584	39,989,552	33,967,518	1.47	77.8
2024	estimate	4,077,554,523	39,789,066	34,338,428	1.48	77.9
2025	projection	4,085,588,111	39,476,078	34,620,881	1.48	78.2
2026	projection	4,092,122,149	39,211,897	34,639,774	1.48	78.5
2027	projection	4,099,656,789	38,979,730	35,146,416	1.48	78.7
2028	projection	4,106,423,833	38,808,097	35,682,975	1.48	78.8
2029	projection	4,112,394,393	38,658,135	36,233,248	1.49	79.0
2030	projection	4,117,555,201	38,575,216	36,790,894	1.49	79.2
2031	projection	4,122,031,626	38,520,099	37,369,297	1.49	79.3
2032	projection	4,125,802,900	38,513,897	37,966,737	1.49	79.5
2033	projection	4,129,060,029	38,531,153	38,586,439	1.50	79.7
2034	projection	4,131,697,032	38,577,410	39,211,872	1.50	79.8
2035	projection	4,133,815,373	38,652,554	39,844,542	1.50	80.0
2036	projection	4,135,307,566	38,745,704	40,478,161	1.51	80.1
2037	projection	4,136,285,415	38,845,754	41,113,802	1.51	80.3
2038	projection	4,136,733,605	38,942,170	41,742,830	1.51	80.4
2039	projection	4,136,684,560	38,998,619	42,384,015	1.52	80.5
2040	projection	4,136,006,457	39,018,735	43,001,064	1.52	80.7
2041	projection	4,134,760,548	39,001,694	43,608,875	1.53	80.8
2042	projection	4,132,884,234	38,943,362	44,196,317	1.53	81.0
2043	projection	4,130,476,128	38,872,758	44,770,743	1.54	81.1
2044	projection	4,127,368,067	38,706,747	45,330,153	1.54	81.3
2045	projection	4,123,566,921	38,478,638	45,864,929	1.55	81.4
2046	projection	4,118,954,978	38,153,918	46,385,522	1.55	81.5
2047	projection	4,113,516,823	37,758,117	46,872,099	1.55	81.7
2048	projection	4,107,225,231	37,303,748	47,346,981	1.56	81.8
2049	projection	4,100,019,921	36,799,762	47,796,957	1.56	81.9
2050	projection	4,091,795,784	36,263,534	48,229,175	1.56	82.1
2051	projection	4,082,701,936	35,696,587	48,639,851	1.56	82.2
2052	projection	4,072,651,978	35,139,375	49,027,775	1.56	82.3
2053	projection	4,061,587,938	34,600,716	49,393,068	1.57	82.4
2054	projection	4,049,633,338	34,071,009	49,735,206	1.57	82.6
2055	projection	4,036,782,516	33,611,480	50,050,449	1.57	82.7
2056	projection	4,023,083,272	33,190,581	50,328,744	1.57	82.8
2057	projection	4,008,680,242	32,822,276	50,586,533	1.57	83.0
2058	projection	3,993,739,730	32,507,394	50,806,390	1.57	83.1
2059	projection	3,978,300,167	32,261,316	51,002,600	1.57	83.2
2060	projection	3,962,342,247	32,062,408	51,143,477	1.57	83.3
2061	projection	3,946,083,081	31,903,206	51,242,370	1.57	83.5
2062	projection	3,929,596,319	31,795,267	51,299,373	1.58	83.6
2063	projection	3,912,936,736	31,732,821	51,322,244	1.58	83.7
2064	projection	3,896,236,942	31,692,928	51,340,011	1.58	83.8
2065	projection	3,879,376,979	31,670,591	51,321,532	1.58	83.9
2066	projection	3,862,504,788	31,650,025	51,288,761	1.58	84.1
2067	projection	3,845,739,387	31,641,668	51,245,462	1.58	84.2
2068	projection	3,828,992,247	31,633,165	51,201,681	1.58	84.3
2069	projection	3,812,243,311	31,612,985	51,146,812	1.58	84.4
2070	projection	3,795,576,092	31,592,666	51,086,159	1.58	84.5
2071	projection	3,778,908,487	31,548,399	51,041,712	1.58	84.7
2072	projection	3,762,290,701	31,494,016	51,005,363	1.58	84.8
2073	projection	3,745,571,930	31,420,475	50,981,066	1.58	84.9
2074	projection	3,728,794,917	31,323,862	50,937,526	1.59	85.0
2075	projection	3,711,930,324	31,203,473	50,901,332	1.59	85.1
2076	projection	3,695,070,013	31,061,968	50,876,691	1.59	85.2
2077	projection	3,678,118,379	30,892,168	50,824,297	1.59	85.3
2078	projection	3,660,965,352	30,697,115	50,757,790	1.59	85.4
2079	projection	3,643,787,733	30,483,916	50,674,064	1.59	85.5
2080	projection	3,626,423,999	30,254,669	50,550,445	1.59	85.7
2081	projection	3,608,947,932	30,008,117	50,390,142	1.59	85.8
2082	projection	3,591,573,537	29,762,386	50,178,879	1.60	85.9
2083	projection	3,574,044,549	29,501,067	49,946,179	1.60	86.0
2084	projection	3,556,514,374	29,236,381	49,661,218	1.60	86.1
2085	projection	3,538,902,761	28,986,559	49,347,646	1.60	86.2
2086	projection	3,521,282,095	28,732,456	49,003,831	1.60	86.3
2087	projection	3,503,859,087	28,497,820	48,658,817	1.60	86.4
2088	projection	3,486,514,202	28,277,140	48,307,505	1.60	86.5
2089	projection	3,469,377,225	28,081,933	47,968,405	1.60	86.6
2090	projection	3,452,271,514	27,908,741	47,646,533	1.60	86.7
2091	projection	3,435,237,551	27,741,189	47,339,935	1.60	86.8
2092	projection	3,418,480,113	27,600,002	47,082,412	1.60	87.0
2093	projection	3,401,805,325	27,474,785	46,862,937	1.60	87.1
2094	projection	3,385,232,381	27,364,037	46,665,406	1.60	87.2
2095	projection	3,368,738,344	27,272,909	46,511,531	1.60	87.3
2096	projection	3,352,270,970	27,191,465	46,369,331	1.60	87.4
2097	projection	3,335,791,872	27,133,668	46,264,289	1.61	87.5
2098	projection	3,319,392,435	27,071,943	46,163,510	1.61	87.6
2099	projection	3,303,017,241	27,023,261	46,068,003	1.61	87.7
2100	projection	3,286,695,718	26,961,106	45,954,683	1.61	87.8

AGG · membership

What High-and-upper-middle-income countries is

High-and-upper-middle-income countries 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: High-and-upper-middle-income countries, mid-2026, by single year of age

High-and-upper-middle-income countries: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	20,121,100	18,988,400
1	20,272,600	19,117,600
2	20,418,700	19,236,600
3	20,735,600	19,526,400
4	21,410,300	20,176,700
5	22,236,600	20,938,000
6	23,607,500	22,090,200
7	24,919,600	23,209,100
8	26,159,200	24,339,000
9	27,312,000	25,347,400
10	27,485,300	25,451,100
11	27,794,900	25,693,000
12	28,087,800	25,921,900
13	28,328,400	26,104,500
14	28,261,700	26,027,900
15	27,810,700	25,621,700
16	27,820,300	25,614,400
17	27,817,500	25,596,300
18	27,626,000	25,415,300
19	27,331,400	25,136,700
20	27,080,600	24,898,300
21	26,958,700	24,763,700
22	26,857,000	24,634,900
23	26,830,600	24,578,200
24	26,988,000	24,705,400
25	27,476,500	25,126,500
26	27,617,300	25,239,900
27	27,535,000	25,187,500
28	27,826,900	25,472,600
29	28,147,100	25,776,500
30	28,515,100	26,139,000
31	28,857,200	26,502,900
32	29,173,400	26,867,200
33	29,647,200	27,385,900
34	30,384,200	28,166,400
35	32,208,200	29,923,200
36	33,248,300	30,999,100
37	32,646,500	30,594,800
38	32,521,900	30,614,200
39	32,184,700	30,461,200
40	31,174,600	29,692,700
41	30,242,900	28,974,200
42	29,461,500	28,371,000
43	29,624,400	28,635,900
44	29,488,100	28,635,200
45	28,624,100	27,928,800
46	28,030,300	27,457,700
47	27,214,200	26,757,400
48	26,602,500	26,253,400
49	26,599,400	26,350,100
50	26,833,800	26,690,700
51	27,287,000	27,233,100
52	27,920,600	27,956,200
53	28,204,600	28,353,500
54	28,302,700	28,600,500
55	28,520,400	28,961,600
56	28,260,100	28,818,400
57	27,702,700	28,432,600
58	26,512,300	27,406,000
59	25,487,500	26,500,100
60	25,580,100	26,757,300
61	25,444,600	26,813,700
62	25,551,500	27,123,800
63	24,378,700	26,096,600
64	20,799,600	22,558,000
65	18,632,800	20,497,600
66	18,254,100	20,297,700
67	18,275,400	20,509,700
68	18,694,100	21,193,100
69	18,117,300	20,829,800
70	17,275,300	20,180,500
71	16,649,300	19,745,500
72	15,591,200	18,779,000
73	14,814,900	18,133,000
74	13,827,700	17,193,500
75	12,745,100	16,083,400
76	11,809,800	15,106,300
77	10,767,400	13,899,900
78	9,914,380	12,888,200
79	8,904,200	11,751,100
80	7,556,000	10,197,300
81	6,507,990	8,957,500
82	5,920,030	8,333,220
83	5,330,030	7,760,740
84	4,766,260	7,243,090
85	4,225,160	6,705,580
86	3,639,250	6,021,430
87	3,082,790	5,301,420
88	2,600,190	4,660,690
89	2,150,940	4,052,030
90	1,737,800	3,459,960
91	1,365,090	2,878,400
92	1,043,120	2,329,190
93	783,214	1,866,600
94	575,452	1,465,590
95	414,528	1,128,130
96	287,027	839,478
97	190,329	602,086
98	122,996	419,990
99	76,756	282,862
100+	108,920	480,995

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

High-and-upper-middle-income countries, 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 High-and-upper-middle-income countries

On the UN's projection, High-and-upper-middle-income countries will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2027: 2,762,970,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 2,735,600,000.

100 aged 15–64

27 children

21 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 32 years: 2000–2031.

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

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in High-and-upper-middle-income countries, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 High-and-upper-middle-income countries gains 4,346,504 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 1,082,786 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: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 10,099,876 (2022) and the most it lost was 223,631 (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 High-and-upper-middle-income countries

Of every 100 babies born in high-and-upper-middle-income countries in 2023, 6 had a mother under 20, 75 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 19 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 9 under 20 and 19 aged 35 or older.

1950
9 · 72 · 19

2023
6 · 75 · 19

2050 · projected
4 · 70 · 26

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

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 39,989,552
Average age when women have a baby: 29.0 years; 29.1 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 19; 67 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in high-and-upper-middle-income countries by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	188,929	235,240	124,711	52,491	20,646	3,998
15–19	5,014,945	5,893,805	4,496,896	2,370,327	1,206,736	475,245
20–24	14,872,837	20,468,445	15,537,022	7,830,772	4,723,093	3,034,465
25–29	14,743,715	17,641,667	17,267,078	11,251,719	9,148,066	7,570,518
30–34	9,799,761	9,045,622	10,182,744	10,760,233	11,624,799	9,020,970
35–39	6,869,182	5,073,872	4,014,240	5,973,348	7,405,745	5,317,209
40–44	3,059,132	2,105,804	937,076	1,540,207	1,962,430	1,403,604
45–49	359,423	314,555	110,904	198,087	168,608	132,625
50–54	10,797	17,455	7,908	12,368	3,411	2,472
All babies	54,918,721	60,796,465	52,678,579	39,989,552	36,263,534	26,961,106

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.