UN country group · UN WPP 2024

Less developed regions, excluding China population

Less developed regions, excluding China population now

5,586,133,480

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: 5,353,175,684

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 5.56860 billion
Median age: 27.3
Aged 65+: 6.9%

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male female projection · one cell = 1,000,000 people

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AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Less developed regions, excluding China in numbers

5,353,175,684 people lived in Less developed regions, excluding China in mid-2023: 66.2% of the world's people. That is 4.8 times its 1950 population of 1.13 billion.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2099 at 8.34 billion, then falling to 8.34 billion by 2100.

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

The median age was 19.9 in 1950 and 26.6 in 2023; the projection has 41.1 in 2100. 6.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 21.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2090 at 5.13 billion.

Population, mid-2023: 5,353,175,684
Share of the world, 2023: 66.2%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.37% · +72,315,108 people
Births, 2023: 111,565,457
Deaths, 2023: 36,373,490
Net migration, 2023: −3,008,083
Children per woman, 2023: 2.65
Median age, 2023: 26.6 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 70.2 years
Population, mid-1950: 1,125,868,863
Projected, mid-2050: 7,104,902,346
Projected, mid-2100: 8,341,345,550

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: Less developed regions, excluding China, 1950–2100

Less developed regions, excluding China: 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	1,113,990,491	50,174,313	26,715,413	5.97	40.1
1951	estimate	1,137,747,235	51,170,155	26,442,280	5.96	41.0
1952	estimate	1,162,955,230	52,700,865	25,970,920	6.00	42.3
1953	estimate	1,190,130,824	54,093,586	26,011,628	6.03	42.9
1954	estimate	1,218,204,356	55,594,913	25,861,180	6.07	43.8
1955	estimate	1,248,146,663	56,834,313	25,893,479	6.07	44.5
1956	estimate	1,279,205,280	58,156,777	25,995,465	6.08	45.0
1957	estimate	1,311,663,786	59,614,453	26,288,195	6.11	45.4
1958	estimate	1,344,581,738	60,881,417	26,426,949	6.12	45.9
1959	estimate	1,378,939,170	62,131,253	26,359,078	6.12	46.5
1960	estimate	1,414,800,484	63,544,478	26,553,254	6.13	47.0
1961	estimate	1,451,648,575	64,676,575	26,731,722	6.12	47.4
1962	estimate	1,489,449,397	66,228,581	26,923,672	6.15	47.9
1963	estimate	1,528,273,595	67,517,582	27,150,686	6.14	48.3
1964	estimate	1,568,219,242	68,649,157	27,296,738	6.12	48.7
1965	estimate	1,609,038,087	69,641,172	28,588,472	6.08	48.1
1966	estimate	1,649,199,446	70,612,334	28,346,524	6.04	48.8
1967	estimate	1,690,468,287	71,671,251	28,284,065	5.99	49.4
1968	estimate	1,733,418,377	72,752,250	28,008,027	5.94	50.2
1969	estimate	1,776,896,931	73,872,141	28,146,369	5.88	50.6
1970	estimate	1,821,237,903	75,132,331	28,699,365	5.83	50.7
1971	estimate	1,866,941,456	76,494,894	30,212,882	5.78	49.9
1972	estimate	1,911,466,240	77,768,195	28,836,398	5.71	51.6
1973	estimate	1,959,003,867	79,005,266	28,846,679	5.63	52.2
1974	estimate	2,007,884,245	80,120,654	29,040,249	5.55	52.5
1975	estimate	2,058,023,802	81,227,170	29,368,780	5.46	52.8
1976	estimate	2,109,206,994	82,693,544	29,407,383	5.39	53.3
1977	estimate	2,161,520,226	83,864,330	29,381,217	5.30	53.8
1978	estimate	2,215,076,743	85,348,807	29,473,896	5.22	54.3
1979	estimate	2,270,058,918	87,204,704	29,139,103	5.16	55.1
1980	estimate	2,327,047,084	89,076,528	29,320,420	5.10	55.6
1981	estimate	2,385,233,171	90,681,282	29,437,191	5.03	56.0
1982	estimate	2,445,718,241	92,238,133	29,610,328	4.95	56.4
1983	estimate	2,507,881,838	93,678,961	30,005,420	4.88	56.7
1984	estimate	2,570,839,839	94,982,244	30,171,701	4.80	57.1
1985	estimate	2,634,997,598	95,886,258	30,279,749	4.70	57.5
1986	estimate	2,699,542,930	96,889,913	30,205,925	4.61	58.0
1987	estimate	2,765,032,771	97,454,561	30,151,282	4.51	58.4
1988	estimate	2,831,286,034	98,270,467	30,474,526	4.42	58.6
1989	estimate	2,897,676,998	99,026,751	30,349,088	4.34	59.2
1990	estimate	2,965,137,184	99,547,265	30,635,113	4.25	59.4
1991	estimate	3,031,600,703	100,275,056	31,011,963	4.17	59.5
1992	estimate	3,098,837,484	100,602,874	31,065,466	4.08	59.9
1993	estimate	3,167,148,739	101,056,831	31,086,993	4.00	60.3
1994	estimate	3,234,952,159	101,472,721	32,054,387	3.92	60.0
1995	estimate	3,301,698,030	102,020,038	31,470,755	3.85	60.8
1996	estimate	3,370,351,967	102,308,664	31,685,804	3.77	61.0
1997	estimate	3,438,772,428	102,759,749	31,822,337	3.70	61.4
1998	estimate	3,507,844,403	103,206,477	32,175,494	3.63	61.5
1999	estimate	3,577,610,320	103,877,963	32,130,506	3.58	62.0
2000	estimate	3,647,001,362	104,768,277	32,095,990	3.53	62.5
2001	estimate	3,716,928,533	105,476,496	32,224,734	3.47	62.8
2002	estimate	3,787,417,351	105,667,388	32,266,729	3.41	63.2
2003	estimate	3,856,816,042	105,965,051	32,312,342	3.35	63.6
2004	estimate	3,927,369,191	106,490,517	32,602,997	3.31	63.9
2005	estimate	3,998,479,915	106,929,941	32,519,450	3.26	64.4
2006	estimate	4,069,604,517	107,660,282	32,536,778	3.23	64.8
2007	estimate	4,142,344,541	108,505,831	32,612,514	3.19	65.2
2008	estimate	4,215,196,648	109,556,916	32,812,445	3.16	65.6
2009	estimate	4,289,024,412	110,545,099	33,034,035	3.14	65.9
2010	estimate	4,363,523,475	111,164,867	32,963,200	3.10	66.4
2011	estimate	4,438,628,858	111,939,558	33,175,672	3.07	66.7
2012	estimate	4,514,523,540	112,588,470	33,143,014	3.04	67.2
2013	estimate	4,590,939,284	112,704,339	33,295,627	3.00	67.5
2014	estimate	4,667,242,296	112,437,584	33,596,623	2.96	67.8
2015	estimate	4,743,038,744	112,830,817	33,911,114	2.94	68.1
2016	estimate	4,818,062,767	112,625,278	34,260,753	2.90	68.3
2017	estimate	4,891,952,091	111,905,486	34,554,084	2.85	68.6
2018	estimate	4,964,772,742	111,872,143	34,708,861	2.82	69.0
2019	estimate	5,037,484,030	111,231,815	35,099,750	2.77	69.2
2020	estimate	5,109,651,333	110,507,204	38,377,565	2.72	68.5
2021	estimate	5,179,712,298	110,649,234	43,615,165	2.69	67.0
2022	estimate	5,244,637,433	111,061,781	36,800,074	2.67	69.6
2023	estimate	5,317,083,718	111,565,457	36,373,490	2.65	70.2
2024	estimate	5,389,267,650	112,005,969	36,886,703	2.63	70.4
2025	projection	5,461,218,436	112,176,483	37,497,378	2.61	70.6
2026	projection	5,532,840,486	112,428,547	38,127,334	2.59	70.8
2027	projection	5,604,354,982	112,664,187	38,796,917	2.57	71.0
2028	projection	5,675,429,136	112,933,809	39,504,885	2.55	71.1
2029	projection	5,746,093,057	113,252,089	40,214,847	2.53	71.3
2030	projection	5,816,414,031	113,548,989	40,946,832	2.51	71.5
2031	projection	5,886,303,203	113,822,486	41,698,774	2.50	71.6
2032	projection	5,955,797,751	114,038,901	42,458,654	2.48	71.8
2033	projection	6,024,695,314	114,290,590	43,235,473	2.46	72.0
2034	projection	6,093,068,605	114,521,058	44,023,413	2.45	72.1
2035	projection	6,160,831,413	114,685,315	44,836,134	2.43	72.3
2036	projection	6,228,023,238	114,830,819	45,658,481	2.42	72.4
2037	projection	6,294,553,574	114,883,541	46,504,895	2.40	72.6
2038	projection	6,360,273,812	114,956,596	47,344,634	2.39	72.7
2039	projection	6,425,194,866	115,003,606	48,190,614	2.38	72.9
2040	projection	6,489,386,699	115,069,319	49,040,361	2.36	73.0
2041	projection	6,552,771,035	115,019,450	49,917,298	2.35	73.2
2042	projection	6,615,214,157	114,954,401	50,789,536	2.34	73.3
2043	projection	6,676,647,548	114,885,550	51,670,493	2.33	73.5
2044	projection	6,737,164,078	114,785,763	52,551,480	2.32	73.6
2045	projection	6,796,668,931	114,609,472	53,439,662	2.31	73.8
2046	projection	6,855,139,129	114,477,471	54,328,373	2.30	73.9
2047	projection	6,912,607,295	114,261,914	55,221,727	2.29	74.0
2048	projection	6,968,961,002	114,079,711	56,116,619	2.27	74.2
2049	projection	7,024,211,692	113,865,314	57,015,227	2.26	74.3
2050	projection	7,078,405,242	113,658,204	57,914,688	2.25	74.4
2051	projection	7,131,399,451	113,461,906	58,808,581	2.24	74.6
2052	projection	7,183,311,895	113,252,469	59,706,663	2.23	74.7
2053	projection	7,234,135,118	113,049,678	60,615,647	2.22	74.8
2054	projection	7,283,890,357	112,809,826	61,531,458	2.21	75.0
2055	projection	7,332,511,091	112,622,563	62,434,918	2.20	75.1
2056	projection	7,380,106,989	112,450,097	63,341,041	2.19	75.2
2057	projection	7,426,606,397	112,250,596	64,247,925	2.18	75.3
2058	projection	7,471,901,660	112,056,264	65,158,371	2.17	75.5
2059	projection	7,516,062,866	111,866,082	66,075,839	2.16	75.6
2060	projection	7,559,170,953	111,666,688	67,002,994	2.15	75.7
2061	projection	7,601,156,318	111,439,447	67,920,233	2.14	75.8
2062	projection	7,641,949,250	111,245,054	68,844,700	2.13	76.0
2063	projection	7,681,597,827	111,013,387	69,766,567	2.13	76.1
2064	projection	7,720,088,474	110,795,297	70,686,215	2.12	76.2
2065	projection	7,757,526,388	110,554,428	71,619,246	2.11	76.3
2066	projection	7,793,757,543	110,316,382	72,539,520	2.10	76.4
2067	projection	7,828,781,997	110,038,275	73,465,390	2.09	76.5
2068	projection	7,862,569,781	109,736,025	74,378,332	2.08	76.7
2069	projection	7,895,172,476	109,405,071	75,285,752	2.08	76.8
2070	projection	7,926,530,780	109,088,491	76,187,188	2.07	76.9
2071	projection	7,956,719,243	108,771,337	77,064,588	2.06	77.0
2072	projection	7,985,677,802	108,405,785	77,951,714	2.05	77.1
2073	projection	8,013,431,217	108,037,721	78,788,789	2.04	77.2
2074	projection	8,039,998,737	107,651,052	79,636,331	2.04	77.3
2075	projection	8,065,326,209	107,256,927	80,471,438	2.03	77.4
2076	projection	8,089,311,659	106,870,917	81,276,560	2.02	77.5
2077	projection	8,112,118,139	106,469,326	82,078,170	2.02	77.7
2078	projection	8,133,797,128	106,021,075	82,850,365	2.01	77.8
2079	projection	8,154,207,413	105,598,311	83,596,136	2.00	77.9
2080	projection	8,173,510,029	105,189,000	84,335,947	2.00	78.0
2081	projection	8,191,655,482	104,750,963	85,037,292	1.99	78.1
2082	projection	8,208,500,481	104,366,627	85,733,169	1.99	78.2
2083	projection	8,224,361,828	103,926,630	86,403,753	1.98	78.3
2084	projection	8,239,098,838	103,521,567	87,061,197	1.97	78.4
2085	projection	8,252,863,166	103,088,422	87,723,001	1.97	78.5
2086	projection	8,265,610,172	102,661,542	88,354,102	1.96	78.6
2087	projection	8,277,232,455	102,228,155	88,961,438	1.96	78.7
2088	projection	8,287,799,471	101,817,508	89,545,855	1.95	78.8
2089	projection	8,297,289,721	101,396,814	90,123,633	1.95	78.9
2090	projection	8,305,897,485	100,957,188	90,666,759	1.94	79.0
2091	projection	8,313,557,313	100,535,219	91,189,955	1.93	79.1
2092	projection	8,320,199,409	100,102,245	91,689,403	1.93	79.2
2093	projection	8,325,955,164	99,657,001	92,175,611	1.92	79.3
2094	projection	8,330,766,794	99,216,750	92,632,705	1.92	79.4
2095	projection	8,334,668,460	98,758,443	93,074,306	1.91	79.5
2096	projection	8,337,706,578	98,326,372	93,478,925	1.91	79.6
2097	projection	8,339,982,330	97,894,242	93,882,957	1.90	79.7
2098	projection	8,341,364,337	97,444,847	94,251,574	1.90	79.8
2099	projection	8,341,965,630	97,001,582	94,595,907	1.90	79.8
2100	projection	8,341,798,002	96,537,024	94,928,140	1.89	80.0

AGG · membership

What Less developed regions, excluding China is

Less developed regions, excluding China 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: Less developed regions, excluding China, mid-2026, by single year of age

Less developed regions, excluding China: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	55,928,500	53,520,000
1	55,348,600	52,998,600
2	54,958,900	52,599,500
3	54,540,500	52,163,500
4	54,174,300	51,795,600
5	53,900,600	51,517,200
6	53,916,300	51,510,400
7	54,091,600	51,677,000
8	54,056,400	51,628,000
9	54,067,100	51,601,800
10	54,137,600	51,629,700
11	53,953,900	51,424,100
12	53,853,100	51,299,400
13	53,889,500	51,288,200
14	53,600,400	50,965,600
15	53,041,200	50,403,200
16	52,497,900	49,887,400
17	51,867,800	49,316,500
18	51,098,700	48,627,700
19	50,328,200	47,951,800
20	49,627,600	47,332,300
21	49,033,300	46,800,700
22	48,479,300	46,315,800
23	47,953,900	45,862,700
24	47,494,400	45,454,600
25	47,013,000	44,995,200
26	46,339,300	44,359,800
27	45,621,000	43,702,700
28	45,072,600	43,190,200
29	44,627,800	42,759,500
30	44,172,600	42,321,200
31	43,632,700	41,817,100
32	43,034,100	41,283,000
33	42,481,500	40,786,300
34	41,935,500	40,294,800
35	41,364,600	39,770,700
36	40,717,600	39,209,800
37	40,020,900	38,597,200
38	39,300,900	37,963,600
39	38,634,800	37,429,700
40	37,940,200	36,859,300
41	37,193,200	36,203,800
42	36,358,400	35,450,800
43	35,422,700	34,570,000
44	34,439,300	33,644,100
45	33,415,400	32,687,600
46	32,318,400	31,702,700
47	31,162,800	30,675,800
48	30,073,200	29,710,600
49	29,118,800	28,895,100
50	28,190,500	28,108,000
51	27,292,000	27,328,800
52	26,470,300	26,624,400
53	25,673,400	25,937,200
54	24,887,200	25,252,100
55	24,053,900	24,525,700
56	23,201,900	23,789,600
57	22,385,200	23,095,400
58	21,540,900	22,363,100
59	20,714,100	21,629,000
60	19,954,200	20,966,300
61	19,222,700	20,325,000
62	18,478,000	19,651,700
63	17,676,800	18,927,800
64	16,805,200	18,144,100
65	15,940,700	17,368,100
66	15,070,100	16,574,400
67	14,169,900	15,726,900
68	13,299,800	14,892,300
69	12,424,500	14,055,600
70	11,560,700	13,240,300
71	10,716,900	12,429,300
72	9,841,370	11,562,600
73	8,985,630	10,707,300
74	8,139,440	9,843,240
75	7,349,910	9,026,290
76	6,621,980	8,253,910
77	5,812,900	7,386,780
78	5,088,020	6,625,750
79	4,486,720	5,967,340
80	3,910,790	5,296,620
81	3,398,020	4,694,180
82	2,941,970	4,160,580
83	2,545,880	3,699,920
84	2,178,980	3,264,660
85	1,834,270	2,837,760
86	1,534,320	2,453,260
87	1,269,240	2,101,000
88	1,032,150	1,768,580
89	822,198	1,458,720
90	642,377	1,181,990
91	493,894	942,832
92	373,778	739,960
93	278,069	570,702
94	202,438	430,254
95	144,300	317,118
96	100,799	228,774
97	68,844	160,999
98	45,946	110,283
99	29,879	73,667
100+	46,055	125,890

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Less developed regions, excluding China, 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 Less developed regions, excluding China

On the UN's projection, Less developed regions, excluding China will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2090: 5,134,620,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 3,430,810,000.

100 aged 15–64

46 children

10 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.

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: 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 Less developed regions, excluding China, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Less developed regions, excluding China loses 2,532,802 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 40–44, at 292,153 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 50,000 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 480,396 (1951), and a loss of 4,530,933 (2017).

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 Less developed regions, excluding China

Of every 100 babies born in less developed regions, excluding China in 2023, 11 had a mother under 20, 75 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 14 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 16 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
16 · 68 · 16

2023
11 · 75 · 14

2050 · projected
8 · 75 · 17

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: 111,565,457
Average age when women have a baby: 28.2 years; 28.9 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 49; 127 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in less developed regions, excluding China by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	638,464	1,075,295	1,042,893	342,744	175,973	40,196
15–19	7,209,140	13,467,670	17,299,576	11,630,428	8,902,335	3,855,954
20–24	13,506,858	23,214,716	31,785,741	31,355,239	26,766,941	16,035,670
25–29	12,052,404	18,850,297	25,911,896	31,355,039	32,984,161	28,530,695
30–34	8,653,876	12,803,670	16,390,220	21,399,648	26,039,163	28,192,543
35–39	5,395,206	7,826,985	8,585,066	11,092,323	13,662,239	15,027,015
40–44	2,296,586	3,309,320	3,111,931	3,728,800	4,420,500	4,306,964
45–49	403,477	649,184	611,600	626,518	669,730	530,430
50–54	18,302	30,033	29,354	34,718	37,162	17,557
All babies	50,174,313	81,227,170	104,768,277	111,565,457	113,658,204	96,537,024

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.