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Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) population

Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) population now

622,335,236

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: 579,184,960

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 619.099 million
Median age: 20.9
Aged 65+: 4.0%

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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

Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) in numbers

579,184,960 people lived in Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) in mid-2023: 7.2% of the world's people. That is 5.5 times its 1950 population of 104 million.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 1.43 billion.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 20.0 in 1950 and 20.4 in 2023; the projection has 37.7 in 2100. 3.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 16.6% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Population, mid-2023: 579,184,960
Share of the world, 2023: 7.2%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +2.31% · +13,056,006 people
Births, 2023: 17,651,666
Deaths, 2023: 3,856,179
Net migration, 2023: +86,709
Children per woman, 2023: 3.86
Median age, 2023: 20.4 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 66.6 years
Population, mid-1950: 104,396,340
Projected, mid-2050: 952,944,600
Projected, mid-2100: 1,428,478,134

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: Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC), 1950–2100

Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC): 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	103,297,648	4,731,538	2,625,729	6.11	39.1
1951	estimate	105,495,032	4,841,550	2,647,466	6.11	39.5
1952	estimate	107,765,174	4,960,376	2,668,536	6.12	40.0
1953	estimate	110,104,059	5,084,634	2,692,519	6.14	40.4
1954	estimate	112,496,455	5,207,049	2,716,221	6.15	40.8
1955	estimate	114,976,674	5,337,223	2,739,016	6.17	41.2
1956	estimate	117,557,885	5,475,234	2,762,643	6.20	41.6
1957	estimate	120,256,384	5,619,775	2,918,067	6.24	40.7
1958	estimate	122,938,473	5,772,633	2,945,412	6.28	41.1
1959	estimate	125,691,153	5,918,717	2,842,774	6.32	42.7
1960	estimate	128,783,275	6,070,069	2,871,877	6.36	43.1
1961	estimate	132,014,702	6,205,813	2,896,609	6.38	43.5
1962	estimate	135,428,625	6,336,368	2,927,522	6.39	43.9
1963	estimate	138,918,363	6,447,332	2,966,628	6.38	44.1
1964	estimate	142,504,485	6,546,697	2,971,481	6.36	44.7
1965	estimate	146,245,838	6,651,957	3,022,429	6.33	44.8
1966	estimate	150,020,763	6,765,776	3,119,322	6.30	44.5
1967	estimate	153,826,586	6,889,600	3,095,127	6.27	45.2
1968	estimate	157,793,657	7,016,994	3,132,264	6.24	45.5
1969	estimate	161,845,311	7,157,900	3,180,248	6.21	45.7
1970	estimate	165,895,577	7,329,221	3,222,107	6.20	45.9
1971	estimate	169,985,431	7,509,821	3,262,964	6.20	46.2
1972	estimate	174,114,647	7,690,296	3,399,126	6.20	45.7
1973	estimate	178,164,217	7,849,803	3,368,955	6.19	46.6
1974	estimate	182,533,607	8,045,969	3,456,775	6.18	46.6
1975	estimate	187,009,693	8,244,310	3,506,347	6.18	46.8
1976	estimate	191,514,576	8,436,203	3,480,009	6.16	47.6
1977	estimate	196,335,811	8,634,928	3,525,379	6.14	47.9
1978	estimate	200,824,337	8,812,536	3,579,532	6.11	48.1
1979	estimate	205,611,147	9,035,918	3,616,178	6.09	48.4
1980	estimate	209,346,127	9,209,374	3,641,316	6.09	48.9
1981	estimate	212,806,662	9,351,911	3,636,765	6.07	49.3
1982	estimate	216,753,359	9,512,976	3,672,331	6.04	49.5
1983	estimate	222,090,999	9,776,553	3,987,975	6.02	48.0
1984	estimate	227,423,433	10,040,180	4,101,176	6.01	47.9
1985	estimate	233,182,956	10,303,823	4,099,635	5.99	48.5
1986	estimate	238,806,615	10,534,890	4,058,397	5.96	49.4
1987	estimate	244,728,172	10,731,166	3,930,850	5.91	50.6
1988	estimate	251,213,871	10,905,273	4,140,244	5.83	50.1
1989	estimate	257,983,166	11,089,099	3,968,580	5.75	51.5
1990	estimate	264,926,935	11,311,236	4,080,358	5.69	51.4
1991	estimate	271,380,306	11,502,591	4,106,991	5.64	51.7
1992	estimate	279,192,130	11,730,602	4,263,773	5.57	51.3
1993	estimate	287,332,806	11,944,949	4,362,627	5.52	51.2
1994	estimate	294,130,025	12,029,128	5,151,771	5.45	47.0
1995	estimate	298,143,616	12,114,808	4,316,720	5.40	52.2
1996	estimate	305,344,809	12,218,840	4,359,677	5.31	52.3
1997	estimate	313,386,849	12,395,498	4,401,211	5.25	52.5
1998	estimate	320,455,958	12,530,952	4,563,941	5.19	52.0
1999	estimate	327,311,718	12,697,953	4,388,023	5.13	53.3
2000	estimate	334,760,524	12,842,860	4,349,082	5.06	54.0
2001	estimate	341,353,443	12,963,028	4,331,465	5.00	54.4
2002	estimate	348,973,046	13,144,758	4,296,108	4.95	55.1
2003	estimate	358,071,287	13,394,698	4,261,554	4.91	55.8
2004	estimate	366,951,728	13,705,018	4,221,606	4.88	56.5
2005	estimate	375,551,782	13,930,651	4,191,570	4.83	57.1
2006	estimate	384,786,316	14,179,444	4,149,030	4.78	57.8
2007	estimate	394,136,198	14,445,342	4,096,040	4.74	58.5
2008	estimate	402,840,144	14,660,700	4,023,948	4.69	59.4
2009	estimate	412,930,631	14,871,079	4,236,392	4.62	58.7
2010	estimate	422,896,258	15,092,002	3,928,074	4.55	60.7
2011	estimate	433,325,538	15,286,018	3,878,465	4.48	61.4
2012	estimate	444,356,827	15,483,286	3,844,112	4.41	62.1
2013	estimate	455,092,166	15,662,138	3,826,025	4.35	62.6
2014	estimate	465,976,081	15,896,132	3,935,146	4.31	62.5
2015	estimate	476,756,680	16,057,929	3,948,494	4.25	62.9
2016	estimate	487,442,585	16,184,639	3,956,065	4.19	63.3
2017	estimate	498,326,821	16,300,972	3,976,455	4.13	63.5
2018	estimate	509,291,073	16,534,514	3,829,864	4.10	64.6
2019	estimate	521,588,519	16,807,786	3,906,939	4.06	64.7
2020	estimate	534,511,997	17,059,994	4,066,540	4.02	64.5
2021	estimate	547,769,337	17,315,761	4,333,589	3.97	63.8
2022	estimate	560,014,033	17,480,601	4,099,468	3.91	65.1
2023	estimate	572,243,875	17,651,666	3,856,179	3.86	66.6
2024	estimate	586,126,046	17,860,496	3,915,847	3.81	66.8
2025	projection	599,454,694	17,971,621	3,974,967	3.74	67.0
2026	projection	612,500,210	18,077,557	4,031,654	3.68	67.2
2027	projection	625,697,948	18,197,462	4,090,650	3.62	67.4
2028	projection	639,191,488	18,323,009	4,153,349	3.56	67.5
2029	projection	652,854,882	18,453,048	4,218,413	3.51	67.7
2030	projection	666,642,115	18,582,018	4,286,767	3.46	67.9
2031	projection	680,496,742	18,707,707	4,358,048	3.40	68.1
2032	projection	694,416,627	18,821,432	4,431,660	3.35	68.3
2033	projection	708,313,090	18,945,175	4,506,353	3.31	68.5
2034	projection	722,253,422	19,052,637	4,583,921	3.26	68.7
2035	projection	736,155,899	19,158,696	4,662,839	3.21	68.8
2036	projection	750,153,237	19,261,190	4,744,784	3.17	69.0
2037	projection	764,143,258	19,364,394	4,828,360	3.13	69.2
2038	projection	778,174,212	19,460,584	4,914,987	3.08	69.3
2039	projection	792,175,861	19,557,658	5,002,983	3.04	69.5
2040	projection	806,276,376	19,670,750	5,093,869	3.00	69.7
2041	projection	820,409,835	19,783,037	5,187,064	2.97	69.9
2042	projection	834,493,599	19,898,545	5,282,427	2.94	70.0
2043	projection	848,490,349	19,999,861	5,379,593	2.90	70.2
2044	projection	862,606,965	20,096,187	5,480,678	2.87	70.3
2045	projection	876,612,585	20,176,100	5,581,747	2.84	70.5
2046	projection	890,589,088	20,242,174	5,685,237	2.81	70.6
2047	projection	904,552,555	20,292,978	5,790,811	2.77	70.8
2048	projection	918,471,282	20,351,923	5,898,009	2.74	70.9
2049	projection	932,333,938	20,395,412	6,007,477	2.71	71.1
2050	projection	946,165,303	20,421,288	6,118,259	2.68	71.2
2051	projection	959,723,898	20,453,438	6,228,997	2.66	71.4
2052	projection	973,278,062	20,473,008	6,343,679	2.63	71.5
2053	projection	986,795,430	20,495,210	6,461,021	2.60	71.7
2054	projection	1,000,209,261	20,512,052	6,580,507	2.58	71.8
2055	projection	1,013,494,539	20,520,645	6,703,751	2.55	72.0
2056	projection	1,026,665,747	20,532,147	6,828,943	2.53	72.1
2057	projection	1,039,792,912	20,540,926	6,955,668	2.51	72.2
2058	projection	1,052,720,784	20,542,439	7,084,321	2.48	72.4
2059	projection	1,065,490,574	20,540,232	7,216,036	2.46	72.5
2060	projection	1,078,151,558	20,530,524	7,349,179	2.44	72.7
2061	projection	1,090,655,718	20,523,403	7,487,357	2.42	72.8
2062	projection	1,103,040,972	20,514,501	7,628,738	2.40	73.0
2063	projection	1,115,262,387	20,503,520	7,772,770	2.38	73.1
2064	projection	1,127,337,400	20,486,013	7,917,921	2.37	73.2
2065	projection	1,139,326,601	20,476,226	8,066,233	2.35	73.4
2066	projection	1,151,164,883	20,469,915	8,217,212	2.33	73.5
2067	projection	1,162,679,989	20,442,479	8,370,419	2.31	73.6
2068	projection	1,174,111,891	20,419,964	8,524,900	2.30	73.8
2069	projection	1,185,411,582	20,399,441	8,682,034	2.28	73.9
2070	projection	1,196,444,254	20,378,029	8,841,557	2.27	74.0
2071	projection	1,207,404,965	20,354,702	9,002,042	2.25	74.2
2072	projection	1,218,029,419	20,323,718	9,166,315	2.24	74.3
2073	projection	1,228,579,362	20,291,995	9,331,275	2.22	74.5
2074	projection	1,238,939,532	20,254,706	9,499,416	2.21	74.6
2075	projection	1,249,058,463	20,213,212	9,664,731	2.20	74.7
2076	projection	1,258,916,102	20,169,044	9,834,674	2.18	74.8
2077	projection	1,268,571,285	20,116,169	10,004,183	2.17	75.0
2078	projection	1,278,127,574	20,059,739	10,171,495	2.16	75.1
2079	projection	1,287,313,336	19,999,135	10,338,934	2.14	75.2
2080	projection	1,296,353,733	19,946,757	10,506,341	2.13	75.3
2081	projection	1,305,094,831	19,888,635	10,672,836	2.12	75.5
2082	projection	1,313,544,275	19,829,917	10,839,946	2.11	75.6
2083	projection	1,321,772,711	19,756,995	11,007,494	2.10	75.7
2084	projection	1,329,738,668	19,687,638	11,174,946	2.09	75.9
2085	projection	1,337,569,395	19,616,061	11,340,886	2.08	76.0
2086	projection	1,345,122,522	19,544,066	11,507,182	2.07	76.1
2087	projection	1,352,377,971	19,470,476	11,668,529	2.06	76.2
2088	projection	1,359,519,211	19,403,729	11,831,858	2.05	76.4
2089	projection	1,366,244,696	19,327,474	11,993,168	2.04	76.5
2090	projection	1,372,856,087	19,250,581	12,153,955	2.03	76.6
2091	projection	1,379,316,237	19,181,473	12,316,671	2.02	76.8
2092	projection	1,385,365,894	19,105,681	12,474,498	2.02	76.9
2093	projection	1,391,221,030	19,028,824	12,634,311	2.01	77.0
2094	projection	1,396,887,686	18,950,021	12,793,109	2.00	77.1
2095	projection	1,402,348,368	18,877,186	12,950,894	1.99	77.3
2096	projection	1,407,539,892	18,805,095	13,104,325	1.99	77.4
2097	projection	1,412,612,220	18,728,127	13,260,095	1.98	77.5
2098	projection	1,417,461,111	18,650,172	13,413,438	1.97	77.6
2099	projection	1,422,032,795	18,575,252	13,561,863	1.97	77.8
2100	projection	1,426,400,353	18,496,029	13,710,079	1.96	77.9

AGG · membership

What Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) is

Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) 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: Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC), mid-2026, by single year of age

Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC): population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	8,893,950	8,578,080
1	8,735,260	8,440,120
2	8,605,700	8,315,480
3	8,467,870	8,180,810
4	8,337,410	8,056,410
5	8,196,180	7,924,420
6	8,041,600	7,778,320
7	7,879,470	7,624,600
8	7,720,820	7,475,080
9	7,595,650	7,359,430
10	7,495,380	7,269,250
11	7,390,510	7,172,720
12	7,261,550	7,052,220
13	7,133,090	6,931,920
14	7,018,820	6,823,750
15	6,906,340	6,718,390
16	6,768,660	6,592,060
17	6,608,450	6,446,660
18	6,440,620	6,295,060
19	6,261,070	6,132,360
20	6,083,750	5,975,900
21	5,903,320	5,819,890
22	5,710,760	5,651,950
23	5,528,370	5,492,250
24	5,361,750	5,345,220
25	5,204,620	5,204,760
26	5,059,060	5,072,080
27	4,905,160	4,930,350
28	4,761,690	4,798,200
29	4,649,510	4,695,630
30	4,542,330	4,598,530
31	4,419,100	4,485,290
32	4,304,760	4,380,510
33	4,201,290	4,285,410
34	4,082,110	4,172,580
35	3,958,140	4,055,410
36	3,830,000	3,934,980
37	3,697,520	3,807,330
38	3,575,330	3,686,050
39	3,461,900	3,577,460
40	3,335,700	3,455,810
41	3,195,320	3,314,330
42	3,056,030	3,173,440
43	2,929,410	3,045,750
44	2,822,120	2,937,880
45	2,721,680	2,836,480
46	2,613,370	2,728,350
47	2,496,890	2,615,730
48	2,383,510	2,508,580
49	2,277,820	2,411,270
50	2,174,380	2,319,730
51	2,071,630	2,226,420
52	1,975,540	2,136,980
53	1,893,740	2,062,950
54	1,819,050	1,994,890
55	1,745,040	1,927,210
56	1,666,060	1,858,180
57	1,585,140	1,788,130
58	1,513,130	1,721,200
59	1,446,280	1,656,120
60	1,384,680	1,597,850
61	1,325,140	1,542,340
62	1,263,370	1,483,040
63	1,203,310	1,425,630
64	1,142,470	1,367,100
65	1,080,180	1,306,060
66	1,012,500	1,239,760
67	936,342	1,161,840
68	858,928	1,079,610
69	786,886	1,003,320
70	721,306	933,203
71	658,671	864,232
72	596,277	795,320
73	537,067	729,643
74	482,434	667,862
75	431,027	608,709
76	382,597	552,663
77	334,178	493,510
78	289,088	436,309
79	246,750	380,270
80	205,909	321,761
81	171,117	271,440
82	144,055	234,924
83	123,039	210,171
84	105,081	189,731
85	88,038	167,592
86	71,767	143,884
87	57,355	121,430
88	44,935	99,965
89	33,988	79,100
90	24,758	60,176
91	17,478	44,343
92	12,138	32,466
93	8,407	23,969
94	5,756	17,504
95	3,891	12,640
96	2,567	8,906
97	1,640	6,041
98	1,004	3,960
99	586	2,481
100+	718	3,767

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC), 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 Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC)

In Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 333,426,000 of them.

100 aged 15–64

67 children

7 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.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

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

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC), and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) loses 552,377 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 102,313 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 10,000 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.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 673,794 (1992); its biggest loss, 2,863,774 (1994).

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 Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC)

Of every 100 babies born in Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) in 2023, 14 had a mother under 20, 72 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 14 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 14 under 20 and 19 aged 35 or older.

1950
14 · 67 · 19

2023
14 · 72 · 14

2050 · projected
11 · 73 · 16

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: 17,651,666
Average age when women have a baby: 28.5 years; 29.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 82; 116 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Land-locked Developing Countries (LLDC) by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	57,785	110,378	140,116	61,700	23,270	4,254
15–19	611,003	1,195,414	2,059,161	2,463,412	2,169,262	911,740
20–24	1,267,158	2,249,514	3,684,856	5,060,925	5,360,774	3,392,144
25–29	1,112,345	1,870,211	2,979,617	4,484,728	5,462,372	5,302,204
30–34	802,861	1,329,841	2,096,800	3,123,224	4,144,105	5,102,878
35–39	558,474	948,141	1,232,105	1,726,783	2,333,922	2,847,496
40–44	258,239	439,941	527,200	614,825	798,613	831,875
45–49	60,703	96,193	117,221	111,322	123,600	100,013
50–54	2,970	4,677	5,784	4,747	5,370	3,425
All babies	4,731,538	8,244,310	12,842,860	17,651,666	20,421,288	18,496,029

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.