UN country group · UN WPP 2024

High-income countries population

High-income countries population now

1,270,947,792

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: 1,261,155,608

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.27029 billion
Median age: 42.6
Aged 65+: 20.7%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2045

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.

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AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

High-income countries in numbers

The UN counts 1,261,155,608 people in High-income countries in mid-2023, and 15.6% of the world's people. That is 1.8 times its 1950 population of 693 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2045 at 1.29 billion, then falling to 1.25 billion by 2100.

Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 2020, and do so in every projected year to 2100. The population still grows until 2045, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 28.4 in 1950 and 41.9 in 2023; the projection has 47.1 in 2100. 19.5% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 29.8% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2024 at 818 million.

Population, mid-2023: 1,261,155,608
Share of the world, 2023: 15.6%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.55% · +6,838,919 people
Births, 2023: 11,523,753
Deaths, 2023: 11,653,643
Net migration, 2023: +5,010,031
Children per woman, 2023: 1.47
Median age, 2023: 41.9 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 81.4 years
Population, mid-1950: 692,711,428
Projected, mid-2050: 1,290,739,282
Projected, mid-2100: 1,252,363,672

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

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

High-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	688,700,295	16,359,140	8,171,825	3.04	61.8
1951	estimate	696,722,561	16,185,689	8,088,829	2.99	62.7
1952	estimate	704,524,782	16,194,327	7,587,741	2.98	64.5
1953	estimate	712,909,032	16,143,136	7,580,454	2.95	65.1
1954	estimate	721,699,485	16,274,601	7,317,391	2.96	66.1
1955	estimate	730,550,011	16,378,898	7,347,723	2.97	66.5
1956	estimate	739,596,615	16,523,644	7,524,788	2.98	66.7
1957	estimate	748,501,357	16,662,904	7,601,722	3.00	66.8
1958	estimate	758,006,826	16,814,618	7,405,863	3.01	67.6
1959	estimate	767,571,581	16,916,330	7,449,002	3.02	67.9
1960	estimate	777,372,149	16,926,699	7,590,067	3.00	68.1
1961	estimate	787,101,426	16,987,173	7,522,224	3.00	68.6
1962	estimate	796,836,501	16,818,064	7,785,003	2.95	68.6
1963	estimate	806,493,054	16,862,580	7,877,409	2.93	68.8
1964	estimate	816,018,241	16,879,899	7,721,083	2.91	69.3
1965	estimate	826,972,705	16,632,488	7,933,417	2.83	69.4
1966	estimate	836,649,779	15,954,347	7,968,556	2.68	69.6
1967	estimate	845,661,368	16,419,599	7,925,151	2.71	70.0
1968	estimate	853,387,683	16,095,482	8,238,240	2.63	69.9
1969	estimate	862,584,389	16,108,504	8,346,887	2.58	70.0
1970	estimate	871,889,412	16,158,934	8,304,017	2.54	70.3
1971	estimate	881,009,080	16,078,896	8,310,364	2.47	70.7
1972	estimate	890,890,268	15,608,488	8,339,701	2.35	71.0
1973	estimate	899,972,052	15,345,565	8,437,204	2.26	71.1
1974	estimate	908,610,297	15,292,993	8,383,374	2.21	71.5
1975	estimate	916,800,599	14,957,571	8,404,135	2.12	71.8
1976	estimate	924,169,486	14,828,467	8,445,416	2.07	72.1
1977	estimate	931,564,685	14,807,636	8,332,142	2.04	72.5
1978	estimate	938,998,749	14,715,818	8,440,564	2.00	72.6
1979	estimate	946,275,514	14,884,759	8,406,883	2.00	73.0
1980	estimate	953,894,137	14,960,428	8,619,497	1.99	73.0
1981	estimate	961,846,108	14,843,946	8,576,406	1.95	73.4
1982	estimate	969,108,910	14,786,661	8,548,239	1.93	73.7
1983	estimate	976,063,123	14,509,604	8,745,001	1.88	73.8
1984	estimate	982,730,555	14,392,026	8,672,876	1.85	74.2
1985	estimate	989,239,718	14,330,623	8,870,243	1.83	74.2
1986	estimate	995,879,141	14,219,042	8,855,421	1.81	74.5
1987	estimate	1,002,745,826	14,229,491	8,802,615	1.80	74.8
1988	estimate	1,009,703,292	14,382,347	8,919,422	1.82	74.9
1989	estimate	1,017,055,304	14,374,975	8,933,579	1.81	75.1
1990	estimate	1,024,668,449	14,494,730	9,012,756	1.82	75.3
1991	estimate	1,031,900,469	14,328,526	9,058,636	1.80	75.5
1992	estimate	1,040,438,837	14,172,284	9,066,641	1.77	75.8
1993	estimate	1,048,572,207	13,885,879	9,283,052	1.74	75.8
1994	estimate	1,055,600,601	13,713,905	9,232,646	1.72	76.1
1995	estimate	1,062,777,263	13,481,148	9,403,322	1.69	76.2
1996	estimate	1,068,695,079	13,430,026	9,359,153	1.69	76.5
1997	estimate	1,075,145,178	13,332,695	9,328,727	1.68	76.9
1998	estimate	1,081,330,220	13,241,065	9,390,367	1.67	77.1
1999	estimate	1,086,812,637	13,173,106	9,502,659	1.67	77.3
2000	estimate	1,093,245,075	13,299,801	9,401,956	1.69	77.6
2001	estimate	1,100,283,538	13,070,416	9,380,145	1.66	77.9
2002	estimate	1,107,608,828	12,937,613	9,502,719	1.65	78.0
2003	estimate	1,115,291,697	12,978,533	9,659,998	1.65	78.2
2004	estimate	1,122,874,940	13,045,808	9,443,302	1.66	78.6
2005	estimate	1,130,722,726	13,067,990	9,636,742	1.67	78.7
2006	estimate	1,138,504,351	13,344,694	9,547,498	1.70	79.0
2007	estimate	1,146,574,807	13,537,776	9,639,744	1.73	79.3
2008	estimate	1,156,189,629	13,661,786	9,777,833	1.74	79.4
2009	estimate	1,165,128,333	13,522,408	9,757,781	1.72	79.7
2010	estimate	1,172,983,171	13,436,877	9,877,091	1.71	79.9
2011	estimate	1,180,741,149	13,312,470	9,995,208	1.69	80.1
2012	estimate	1,188,985,674	13,341,007	10,178,449	1.69	80.2
2013	estimate	1,196,709,629	13,140,530	10,232,392	1.67	80.4
2014	estimate	1,204,303,893	13,227,573	10,247,434	1.68	80.6
2015	estimate	1,212,331,257	13,207,564	10,621,579	1.68	80.6
2016	estimate	1,220,935,563	13,178,608	10,617,081	1.67	80.7
2017	estimate	1,228,625,281	12,920,916	10,878,465	1.64	80.8
2018	estimate	1,234,526,144	12,657,759	10,987,036	1.60	80.9
2019	estimate	1,240,274,442	12,349,033	11,016,688	1.56	81.1
2020	estimate	1,246,313,009	11,951,741	12,198,606	1.51	80.2
2021	estimate	1,247,643,340	11,931,697	12,384,298	1.52	79.9
2022	estimate	1,249,917,881	11,725,849	12,388,818	1.50	80.4
2023	estimate	1,258,715,498	11,523,753	11,653,643	1.47	81.4
2024	estimate	1,263,595,718	11,514,654	11,820,323	1.47	81.6
2025	projection	1,266,770,539	11,487,096	11,931,715	1.47	81.7
2026	projection	1,268,957,931	11,449,203	12,049,300	1.48	81.9
2027	projection	1,271,628,149	11,429,181	12,168,396	1.48	82.0
2028	projection	1,274,052,294	11,427,082	12,290,990	1.48	82.2
2029	projection	1,276,248,280	11,428,051	12,415,236	1.49	82.3
2030	projection	1,278,181,420	11,438,801	12,543,389	1.49	82.5
2031	projection	1,279,909,036	11,455,031	12,679,858	1.49	82.6
2032	projection	1,281,476,146	11,485,723	12,816,438	1.50	82.8
2033	projection	1,282,956,469	11,526,087	12,957,723	1.50	82.9
2034	projection	1,284,324,560	11,571,230	13,107,622	1.50	83.0
2035	projection	1,285,619,014	11,630,593	13,252,321	1.51	83.2
2036	projection	1,286,740,929	11,694,784	13,399,936	1.51	83.3
2037	projection	1,287,765,350	11,747,620	13,545,716	1.51	83.5
2038	projection	1,288,724,176	11,803,365	13,691,716	1.52	83.6
2039	projection	1,289,576,813	11,853,529	13,839,503	1.52	83.7
2040	projection	1,290,295,449	11,887,512	13,973,288	1.52	83.9
2041	projection	1,290,902,070	11,912,701	14,110,113	1.52	84.0
2042	projection	1,291,423,900	11,922,099	14,236,900	1.53	84.1
2043	projection	1,291,888,503	11,924,091	14,356,840	1.53	84.3
2044	projection	1,292,194,153	11,906,468	14,468,833	1.53	84.4
2045	projection	1,292,349,295	11,887,246	14,567,803	1.54	84.5
2046	projection	1,292,372,998	11,838,383	14,664,577	1.54	84.7
2047	projection	1,292,260,746	11,781,061	14,748,158	1.54	84.8
2048	projection	1,291,986,497	11,719,748	14,830,229	1.54	84.9
2049	projection	1,291,610,781	11,647,208	14,898,405	1.55	85.0
2050	projection	1,291,051,940	11,576,931	14,965,732	1.55	85.2
2051	projection	1,290,426,625	11,503,675	15,019,756	1.55	85.3
2052	projection	1,289,677,561	11,430,198	15,066,747	1.55	85.4
2053	projection	1,288,797,401	11,361,914	15,112,519	1.56	85.5
2054	projection	1,287,770,269	11,293,487	15,145,238	1.56	85.7
2055	projection	1,286,600,377	11,233,637	15,166,576	1.56	85.8
2056	projection	1,285,299,105	11,183,433	15,186,300	1.56	85.9
2057	projection	1,283,927,802	11,140,231	15,202,291	1.56	86.0
2058	projection	1,282,549,555	11,104,753	15,207,708	1.56	86.1
2059	projection	1,281,188,628	11,083,533	15,210,176	1.56	86.3
2060	projection	1,279,735,584	11,072,513	15,196,641	1.57	86.4
2061	projection	1,278,255,337	11,068,442	15,183,428	1.57	86.5
2062	projection	1,276,834,135	11,068,630	15,164,535	1.57	86.6
2063	projection	1,275,441,095	11,078,455	15,140,121	1.57	86.7
2064	projection	1,274,104,556	11,096,891	15,112,931	1.57	86.9
2065	projection	1,272,734,936	11,119,815	15,083,797	1.57	87.0
2066	projection	1,271,430,607	11,146,340	15,054,086	1.57	87.1
2067	projection	1,270,218,197	11,175,291	15,027,002	1.57	87.2
2068	projection	1,269,100,421	11,206,560	15,002,913	1.57	87.3
2069	projection	1,267,993,496	11,236,366	14,968,021	1.57	87.4
2070	projection	1,266,985,448	11,267,859	14,939,120	1.58	87.5
2071	projection	1,265,978,106	11,285,795	14,904,684	1.58	87.7
2072	projection	1,265,076,647	11,309,225	14,875,154	1.58	87.8
2073	projection	1,264,144,738	11,319,776	14,840,489	1.58	87.9
2074	projection	1,263,256,475	11,332,767	14,803,035	1.58	88.0
2075	projection	1,262,398,097	11,340,583	14,764,813	1.58	88.1
2076	projection	1,261,709,312	11,343,595	14,728,192	1.58	88.2
2077	projection	1,261,021,558	11,341,575	14,685,158	1.58	88.3
2078	projection	1,260,319,355	11,334,204	14,634,354	1.58	88.4
2079	projection	1,259,702,104	11,321,059	14,589,007	1.59	88.5
2080	projection	1,259,056,660	11,300,439	14,535,479	1.59	88.7
2081	projection	1,258,446,363	11,275,212	14,477,882	1.59	88.8
2082	projection	1,258,009,605	11,251,334	14,417,044	1.59	88.9
2083	projection	1,257,504,675	11,224,257	14,353,868	1.59	89.0
2084	projection	1,257,049,871	11,196,516	14,282,612	1.59	89.1
2085	projection	1,256,591,620	11,172,765	14,216,694	1.59	89.2
2086	projection	1,256,081,594	11,148,228	14,148,130	1.59	89.3
2087	projection	1,255,669,476	11,124,010	14,084,477	1.59	89.4
2088	projection	1,255,300,036	11,102,586	14,017,495	1.60	89.5
2089	projection	1,255,066,481	11,090,343	13,956,048	1.60	89.6
2090	projection	1,254,757,314	11,080,191	13,903,709	1.60	89.8
2091	projection	1,254,459,571	11,065,853	13,859,839	1.60	89.8
2092	projection	1,254,261,371	11,062,691	13,823,262	1.60	90.0
2093	projection	1,254,084,891	11,059,082	13,800,565	1.60	90.1
2094	projection	1,253,914,258	11,058,189	13,787,755	1.60	90.2
2095	projection	1,253,748,078	11,064,173	13,788,455	1.60	90.3
2096	projection	1,253,551,290	11,070,386	13,799,344	1.60	90.4
2097	projection	1,253,312,045	11,083,102	13,814,850	1.60	90.5
2098	projection	1,253,102,234	11,091,814	13,837,087	1.60	90.6
2099	projection	1,252,842,827	11,103,821	13,863,705	1.60	90.7
2100	projection	1,252,552,536	11,110,559	13,883,081	1.60	90.8

AGG · membership

What High-income countries is

High-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-income countries, mid-2026, by single year of age

High-income countries: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	5,898,540	5,606,240
1	5,951,530	5,661,470
2	5,985,780	5,698,110
3	6,070,190	5,781,230
4	6,202,500	5,909,820
5	6,255,090	5,962,710
6	6,356,330	6,060,730
7	6,540,090	6,233,870
8	6,695,200	6,373,770
9	6,889,460	6,551,210
10	7,024,840	6,671,310
11	7,061,610	6,703,490
12	7,072,540	6,717,080
13	7,126,990	6,767,620
14	7,188,410	6,825,970
15	7,223,700	6,863,030
16	7,313,790	6,945,100
17	7,460,620	7,067,670
18	7,598,160	7,178,690
19	7,669,050	7,223,970
20	7,697,590	7,225,170
21	7,768,750	7,252,240
22	7,868,450	7,291,950
23	7,927,070	7,290,090
24	8,020,620	7,331,640
25	8,209,780	7,455,910
26	8,293,760	7,478,790
27	8,318,460	7,468,650
28	8,417,600	7,530,260
29	8,507,490	7,577,960
30	8,596,580	7,634,610
31	8,712,600	7,733,630
32	8,835,870	7,854,720
33	8,988,480	8,003,250
34	9,115,850	8,152,160
35	9,225,920	8,264,480
36	9,217,460	8,288,990
37	9,134,200	8,261,100
38	9,063,350	8,229,760
39	8,976,200	8,202,590
40	8,949,490	8,231,250
41	8,913,050	8,250,450
42	8,855,590	8,249,790
43	8,898,860	8,325,310
44	8,907,090	8,391,950
45	8,891,200	8,419,430
46	8,817,130	8,383,680
47	8,656,450	8,251,760
48	8,566,480	8,180,670
49	8,502,470	8,149,030
50	8,447,830	8,126,140
51	8,480,010	8,180,660
52	8,495,560	8,225,300
53	8,489,580	8,261,500
54	8,545,060	8,395,930
55	8,559,530	8,472,600
56	8,474,790	8,410,240
57	8,348,240	8,338,140
58	8,236,490	8,279,340
59	8,049,570	8,112,050
60	7,995,220	8,096,910
61	8,065,920	8,224,560
62	7,975,040	8,186,180
63	7,819,630	8,084,650
64	7,679,620	8,008,840
65	7,545,930	7,943,940
66	7,353,060	7,808,760
67	7,121,780	7,638,470
68	6,866,500	7,453,380
69	6,623,820	7,289,140
70	6,419,210	7,164,310
71	6,172,700	6,965,560
72	5,891,570	6,721,440
73	5,670,830	6,551,060
74	5,454,850	6,370,110
75	5,261,600	6,201,560
76	5,093,770	6,086,250
77	4,920,600	5,968,190
78	4,735,700	5,817,770
79	4,352,690	5,426,820
80	3,650,330	4,646,420
81	3,169,800	4,142,560
82	3,031,500	4,074,530
83	2,797,140	3,875,170
84	2,507,330	3,595,860
85	2,254,510	3,369,260
86	1,989,640	3,099,230
87	1,705,640	2,752,360
88	1,453,280	2,443,700
89	1,234,230	2,190,060
90	1,027,300	1,931,470
91	828,079	1,656,100
92	644,906	1,373,660
93	495,986	1,130,720
94	376,831	922,291
95	278,238	729,522
96	196,425	553,866
97	132,442	405,759
98	86,900	289,443
99	55,216	200,562
100+	79,571	355,992

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

High-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-income countries

On the UN's projection, High-income countries will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2024: 817,550,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 817,023,000.

100 aged 15–64

24 children

30 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 27 years: 1987–2013.

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 High-income countries, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 High-income countries gains 4,556,575 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 1,125,098 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 200,000 people a year

020406080+

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.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 9,460,669 (2022), and a loss of 768,706 (1967).

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-income countries

Of every 100 babies born in high-income countries in 2023, 3 had a mother under 20, 72 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 25 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 · 72 · 25

2050 · projected
1 · 69 · 30

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: 11,523,753
Average age when women have a baby: 30.8 years; 28.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 9; 39 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in high-income countries by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	12,030	28,253	16,741	4,099	1,035	853
15–19	1,113,657	1,515,198	901,367	295,183	125,861	115,226
20–24	4,638,361	4,930,049	2,684,120	1,456,289	971,677	950,155
25–29	5,026,714	5,245,313	4,198,338	3,026,889	2,871,734	2,911,351
30–34	2,978,473	2,151,473	3,609,666	3,866,470	4,127,721	3,998,336
35–39	1,887,541	832,399	1,562,421	2,271,959	2,661,143	2,413,722
40–44	651,058	227,025	302,867	557,093	746,985	655,194
45–49	49,722	25,875	23,241	45,164	69,889	64,802
50–54	1,584	1,986	1,040	607	886	920
All babies	16,359,140	14,957,571	13,299,801	11,523,753	11,576,931	11,110,559

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.