UN country group · UN WPP 2024

More developed regions population

More developed regions population now

1,288,194,215

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: 1,284,500,522

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.28805 billion
Median age: 43.4
Aged 65+: 21.4%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2030

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

More developed regions in numbers

The UN counts 1,284,500,522 people in More developed regions in mid-2023, and 15.9% of the world's people. That is 1.6 times its 1950 population of 813 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2030 at 1.29 billion, then falling to 1.19 billion by 2100.

2018 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 2030, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 28.1 in 1950 and 42.6 in 2023; the projection has 48.5 in 2100. 20.2% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 30.8% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2011 at 838 million; in 2023 it was 823 million.

Population, mid-2023: 1,284,500,522
Share of the world, 2023: 15.9%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.06% · +723,857 people
Births, 2023: 11,466,713
Deaths, 2023: 13,327,994
Net migration, 2023: +3,603,208
Children per woman, 2023: 1.45
Median age, 2023: 42.6 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 79.9 years
Population, mid-1950: 813,408,101
Projected, mid-2050: 1,272,993,068
Projected, mid-2100: 1,193,018,636

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: More developed regions, 1950–2100

More developed regions: 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	808,647,575	18,926,511	9,104,177	2.86	63.0
1951	estimate	818,168,627	18,739,228	9,217,894	2.82	63.2
1952	estimate	827,201,706	18,703,576	8,847,907	2.80	64.5
1953	estimate	836,593,665	18,573,313	8,813,534	2.76	65.1
1954	estimate	846,338,777	18,655,185	8,549,875	2.76	66.0
1955	estimate	856,203,695	18,673,879	8,489,190	2.76	66.6
1956	estimate	866,222,384	18,715,813	8,462,000	2.75	67.4
1957	estimate	876,107,082	18,804,096	8,569,635	2.75	67.5
1958	estimate	886,659,856	18,943,306	8,280,002	2.76	68.4
1959	estimate	897,328,969	19,020,787	8,357,254	2.76	68.6
1960	estimate	907,821,356	18,980,388	8,450,518	2.75	69.0
1961	estimate	918,438,408	18,846,606	8,386,043	2.72	69.4
1962	estimate	929,249,036	18,447,229	8,689,585	2.66	69.4
1963	estimate	939,762,090	18,305,829	8,751,097	2.64	69.6
1964	estimate	949,994,521	18,072,662	8,591,595	2.60	70.2
1965	estimate	959,989,583	17,552,101	8,850,368	2.52	70.2
1966	estimate	969,517,117	16,844,336	8,900,292	2.41	70.4
1967	estimate	978,461,073	17,240,553	8,999,495	2.44	70.5
1968	estimate	987,153,929	16,977,195	9,356,671	2.38	70.4
1969	estimate	995,805,527	16,994,234	9,560,160	2.34	70.3
1970	estimate	1,004,413,292	17,088,721	9,558,382	2.32	70.6
1971	estimate	1,012,530,890	17,115,476	9,592,695	2.28	70.9
1972	estimate	1,021,869,747	16,736,083	9,670,818	2.19	71.1
1973	estimate	1,030,458,046	16,463,982	9,795,796	2.11	71.3
1974	estimate	1,038,617,500	16,532,998	9,797,042	2.08	71.5
1975	estimate	1,046,422,612	16,232,454	9,916,698	2.01	71.6
1976	estimate	1,053,528,389	16,116,580	10,010,560	1.97	71.8
1977	estimate	1,060,604,545	16,110,780	9,956,244	1.94	72.1
1978	estimate	1,067,629,075	16,041,698	10,125,973	1.91	72.2
1979	estimate	1,074,379,293	16,127,745	10,183,307	1.90	72.4
1980	estimate	1,081,348,427	16,178,577	10,411,936	1.89	72.4
1981	estimate	1,088,666,503	16,025,485	10,425,656	1.86	72.7
1982	estimate	1,095,041,979	16,107,514	10,383,540	1.86	73.0
1983	estimate	1,101,258,157	16,118,207	10,630,598	1.85	73.0
1984	estimate	1,107,488,933	16,007,878	10,664,658	1.83	73.2
1985	estimate	1,113,518,796	15,912,579	10,832,212	1.82	73.4
1986	estimate	1,119,699,794	15,959,466	10,666,276	1.82	73.8
1987	estimate	1,126,282,803	15,928,517	10,643,271	1.82	74.1
1988	estimate	1,132,822,676	15,844,788	10,820,148	1.82	74.2
1989	estimate	1,139,580,143	15,575,723	10,865,580	1.79	74.3
1990	estimate	1,145,889,718	15,415,751	11,048,167	1.77	74.3
1991	estimate	1,152,799,915	14,975,423	11,177,493	1.73	74.4
1992	estimate	1,159,112,402	14,507,391	11,402,782	1.68	74.2
1993	estimate	1,163,504,747	13,953,805	11,985,495	1.62	73.8
1994	estimate	1,167,949,756	13,722,301	12,094,773	1.60	73.8
1995	estimate	1,172,917,327	13,409,523	12,231,134	1.57	73.9
1996	estimate	1,176,302,202	13,295,860	12,043,191	1.56	74.5
1997	estimate	1,179,957,708	13,153,140	11,908,421	1.55	74.9
1998	estimate	1,183,287,708	13,111,296	11,926,781	1.55	75.2
1999	estimate	1,185,709,954	12,969,419	12,220,888	1.54	75.0
2000	estimate	1,188,836,617	13,099,041	12,198,093	1.56	75.2
2001	estimate	1,192,527,439	12,996,603	12,206,889	1.55	75.4
2002	estimate	1,196,218,229	13,041,931	12,403,154	1.56	75.4
2003	estimate	1,201,586,737	13,225,512	12,577,203	1.58	75.5
2004	estimate	1,205,932,477	13,366,831	12,283,453	1.60	76.0
2005	estimate	1,210,541,741	13,363,375	12,469,434	1.60	76.0
2006	estimate	1,214,802,163	13,670,716	12,222,064	1.63	76.6
2007	estimate	1,219,335,797	13,956,258	12,197,691	1.67	76.9
2008	estimate	1,225,112,325	14,222,021	12,298,304	1.70	77.1
2009	estimate	1,230,654,192	14,134,804	12,179,113	1.69	77.5
2010	estimate	1,235,728,699	14,030,408	12,320,017	1.68	77.7
2011	estimate	1,240,683,293	13,838,773	12,231,069	1.66	78.1
2012	estimate	1,245,527,154	13,914,855	12,358,033	1.67	78.3
2013	estimate	1,250,104,327	13,717,318	12,353,576	1.65	78.6
2014	estimate	1,254,725,277	13,764,719	12,348,415	1.66	78.8
2015	estimate	1,259,516,987	13,685,909	12,655,670	1.66	78.8
2016	estimate	1,265,061,213	13,607,493	12,580,868	1.65	79.1
2017	estimate	1,270,670,789	13,161,331	12,741,549	1.60	79.3
2018	estimate	1,275,682,044	12,845,131	12,889,895	1.57	79.3
2019	estimate	1,280,270,292	12,502,448	12,895,516	1.53	79.5
2020	estimate	1,284,479,178	12,146,303	14,525,902	1.50	78.4
2021	estimate	1,284,274,067	12,129,629	15,109,324	1.51	77.8
2022	estimate	1,283,923,779	11,775,972	14,199,055	1.48	78.9
2023	estimate	1,283,629,551	11,466,713	13,327,994	1.45	79.9
2024	estimate	1,285,371,494	11,404,485	13,560,338	1.46	80.1
2025	projection	1,286,746,743	11,344,523	13,654,556	1.46	80.2
2026	projection	1,287,766,535	11,284,552	13,756,323	1.47	80.4
2027	projection	1,288,340,445	11,235,100	13,855,764	1.47	80.5
2028	projection	1,288,730,412	11,209,109	13,961,382	1.48	80.7
2029	projection	1,289,005,792	11,193,751	14,067,267	1.48	80.8
2030	projection	1,289,071,502	11,195,257	14,174,375	1.49	81.0
2031	projection	1,289,014,781	11,207,771	14,293,002	1.49	81.2
2032	projection	1,288,793,128	11,242,225	14,411,538	1.49	81.3
2033	projection	1,288,533,934	11,292,239	14,533,382	1.50	81.5
2034	projection	1,288,203,275	11,351,827	14,662,895	1.50	81.6
2035	projection	1,287,830,929	11,427,348	14,787,027	1.50	81.7
2036	projection	1,287,359,512	11,513,054	14,910,509	1.51	81.9
2037	projection	1,286,823,321	11,587,047	15,033,165	1.51	82.0
2038	projection	1,286,234,262	11,664,716	15,154,440	1.51	82.2
2039	projection	1,285,628,170	11,735,640	15,277,700	1.51	82.3
2040	projection	1,284,888,732	11,788,063	15,384,952	1.52	82.5
2041	projection	1,284,139,440	11,830,862	15,492,345	1.52	82.6
2042	projection	1,283,350,292	11,854,037	15,588,812	1.52	82.8
2043	projection	1,282,560,294	11,866,216	15,677,018	1.52	82.9
2044	projection	1,281,619,813	11,848,142	15,754,447	1.52	83.1
2045	projection	1,280,589,747	11,821,768	15,816,226	1.53	83.2
2046	projection	1,279,480,598	11,761,552	15,875,222	1.53	83.3
2047	projection	1,278,262,768	11,686,012	15,921,308	1.53	83.5
2048	projection	1,276,923,058	11,600,439	15,960,977	1.53	83.6
2049	projection	1,275,462,960	11,498,646	15,988,335	1.53	83.8
2050	projection	1,273,841,570	11,397,122	16,015,414	1.54	83.9
2051	projection	1,272,144,567	11,289,150	16,029,813	1.54	84.0
2052	projection	1,270,339,743	11,181,778	16,037,362	1.54	84.2
2053	projection	1,268,420,018	11,081,518	16,044,184	1.54	84.3
2054	projection	1,266,312,070	10,983,097	16,041,565	1.54	84.4
2055	projection	1,264,072,408	10,893,791	16,029,014	1.55	84.5
2056	projection	1,261,701,284	10,815,835	16,018,544	1.55	84.7
2057	projection	1,259,286,813	10,751,417	16,006,107	1.55	84.8
2058	projection	1,256,893,067	10,694,868	15,984,883	1.55	84.9
2059	projection	1,254,511,711	10,656,908	15,963,403	1.55	85.0
2060	projection	1,252,050,969	10,632,152	15,928,367	1.56	85.2
2061	projection	1,249,599,644	10,616,494	15,897,243	1.56	85.3
2062	projection	1,247,193,578	10,610,596	15,863,023	1.56	85.4
2063	projection	1,244,835,555	10,614,603	15,824,735	1.56	85.5
2064	projection	1,242,509,862	10,630,916	15,784,431	1.56	85.7
2065	projection	1,240,187,985	10,654,823	15,743,003	1.56	85.8
2066	projection	1,237,931,402	10,680,426	15,703,337	1.56	85.9
2067	projection	1,235,797,255	10,711,326	15,665,269	1.56	86.1
2068	projection	1,233,780,366	10,746,187	15,630,016	1.57	86.2
2069	projection	1,231,778,897	10,781,759	15,582,756	1.57	86.3
2070	projection	1,229,864,175	10,818,372	15,541,147	1.57	86.4
2071	projection	1,227,969,121	10,839,595	15,491,906	1.57	86.6
2072	projection	1,226,180,521	10,863,492	15,446,901	1.57	86.7
2073	projection	1,224,433,619	10,876,787	15,394,517	1.57	86.8
2074	projection	1,222,732,662	10,888,704	15,336,732	1.57	86.9
2075	projection	1,221,084,631	10,888,886	15,276,906	1.57	87.0
2076	projection	1,219,620,574	10,884,193	15,215,781	1.57	87.2
2077	projection	1,218,183,495	10,873,883	15,147,613	1.58	87.3
2078	projection	1,216,729,987	10,853,070	15,070,263	1.58	87.4
2079	projection	1,215,366,010	10,824,071	14,997,468	1.58	87.5
2080	projection	1,214,000,869	10,787,368	14,915,673	1.58	87.7
2081	projection	1,212,688,895	10,743,383	14,829,644	1.58	87.8
2082	projection	1,211,568,936	10,701,136	14,741,164	1.58	87.9
2083	projection	1,210,375,463	10,654,940	14,650,395	1.58	88.0
2084	projection	1,209,245,128	10,606,373	14,551,660	1.58	88.1
2085	projection	1,208,110,059	10,561,299	14,458,624	1.58	88.2
2086	projection	1,206,931,902	10,516,364	14,365,342	1.58	88.3
2087	projection	1,205,854,588	10,473,457	14,280,129	1.59	88.4
2088	projection	1,204,844,594	10,435,212	14,193,444	1.59	88.5
2089	projection	1,203,964,404	10,405,399	14,116,917	1.59	88.7
2090	projection	1,203,014,861	10,380,349	14,053,620	1.59	88.8
2091	projection	1,202,056,844	10,351,037	14,002,662	1.59	88.9
2092	projection	1,201,192,265	10,335,361	13,962,565	1.59	89.0
2093	projection	1,200,306,184	10,318,351	13,942,020	1.59	89.1
2094	projection	1,199,441,782	10,308,920	13,934,912	1.59	89.2
2095	projection	1,198,589,517	10,306,879	13,943,994	1.59	89.3
2096	projection	1,197,679,025	10,306,171	13,966,230	1.59	89.4
2097	projection	1,196,684,995	10,313,992	13,993,066	1.60	89.5
2098	projection	1,195,729,483	10,317,501	14,026,210	1.60	89.7
2099	projection	1,194,693,331	10,323,843	14,064,997	1.60	89.8
2100	projection	1,193,608,071	10,326,376	14,094,661	1.59	89.9

AGG · membership

What More developed regions is

More developed regions 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: More developed regions, mid-2026, by single year of age

More developed regions: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	5,825,960	5,531,850
1	5,890,600	5,595,550
2	5,945,770	5,648,920
3	6,053,130	5,751,960
4	6,229,480	5,922,380
5	6,322,810	6,012,780
6	6,422,090	6,108,390
7	6,616,920	6,292,190
8	6,808,710	6,469,080
9	7,061,010	6,703,830
10	7,239,820	6,866,270
11	7,292,990	6,912,430
12	7,326,590	6,944,470
13	7,383,250	6,992,920
14	7,423,730	7,026,980
15	7,430,070	7,039,100
16	7,512,510	7,123,760
17	7,650,360	7,257,620
18	7,724,340	7,334,050
19	7,711,980	7,328,670
20	7,680,110	7,306,410
21	7,682,020	7,312,100
22	7,688,690	7,315,570
23	7,635,960	7,257,040
24	7,594,820	7,206,360
25	7,655,610	7,245,560
26	7,665,640	7,233,640
27	7,638,020	7,203,020
28	7,659,020	7,231,910
29	7,691,420	7,273,670
30	7,776,150	7,366,060
31	7,897,440	7,497,390
32	8,034,060	7,647,470
33	8,247,210	7,878,860
34	8,517,990	8,164,160
35	8,777,160	8,432,870
36	8,900,330	8,585,990
37	8,920,090	8,632,900
38	8,955,400	8,691,160
39	8,959,490	8,730,600
40	8,950,120	8,754,670
41	8,893,620	8,730,860
42	8,863,200	8,712,470
43	8,854,370	8,720,320
44	8,751,110	8,663,640
45	8,783,010	8,734,340
46	8,791,340	8,760,870
47	8,631,130	8,619,280
48	8,546,810	8,560,740
49	8,494,230	8,535,250
50	8,471,680	8,548,620
51	8,493,230	8,591,340
52	8,454,210	8,570,370
53	8,431,230	8,584,130
54	8,490,490	8,706,360
55	8,560,140	8,788,740
56	8,511,520	8,713,330
57	8,297,680	8,576,870
58	8,174,270	8,519,910
59	8,032,680	8,400,930
60	8,027,590	8,451,740
61	8,174,190	8,672,350
62	8,125,740	8,702,960
63	8,001,740	8,633,490
64	7,876,400	8,610,070
65	7,764,600	8,616,270
66	7,588,260	8,531,260
67	7,339,380	8,357,180
68	7,074,630	8,156,960
69	6,815,560	7,988,070
70	6,588,700	7,850,070
71	6,343,770	7,665,300
72	6,048,160	7,398,010
73	5,800,950	7,195,010
74	5,582,370	7,014,660
75	5,389,380	6,835,080
76	5,224,230	6,731,950
77	4,988,090	6,489,750
78	4,753,050	6,225,100
79	4,366,240	5,801,730
80	3,614,650	4,863,330
81	3,089,590	4,225,570
82	2,930,800	4,095,200
83	2,710,470	3,927,800
84	2,470,740	3,775,090
85	2,258,040	3,628,750
86	2,006,920	3,374,540
87	1,724,430	3,014,840
88	1,474,870	2,682,590
89	1,246,580	2,364,710
90	1,026,230	2,031,890
91	817,870	1,701,980
92	631,397	1,390,010
93	487,938	1,153,460
94	373,318	948,404
95	276,468	749,334
96	195,878	570,743
97	132,306	419,170
98	86,569	297,368
99	54,650	204,554
100+	76,004	354,581

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

More developed regions, 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 More developed regions

More developed regions had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2011: 837,530,000 people aged 15–64, against 822,685,000 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

25 children

32 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 30 years: 1984–2013.

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 More developed regions, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 More developed regions gains 2,928,952 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 700,208 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 100,000 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 4,729,781 (2002); its biggest loss, 488,235 (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 More developed regions

Of every 100 babies born in more developed regions 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 6 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
6 · 78 · 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: 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: 11,466,713
Average age when women have a baby: 30.4 years; 28.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 9; 34 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in more developed regions by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	8,721	21,605	14,783	4,285	1,019	938
15–19	1,161,802	1,686,625	1,022,082	323,497	123,714	119,941
20–24	5,619,271	5,765,620	3,064,400	1,537,799	930,233	929,328
25–29	5,907,065	5,442,784	3,973,906	3,023,843	2,865,984	2,778,365
30–34	3,224,667	2,125,668	3,321,140	3,778,018	4,143,451	3,699,659
35–39	2,170,286	938,040	1,431,547	2,232,545	2,590,866	2,174,363
40–44	782,769	229,398	259,032	524,295	676,935	564,049
45–49	50,937	20,818	11,517	41,798	64,282	59,113
50–54	993	1,896	634	633	638	620
All babies	18,926,511	16,232,454	13,099,041	11,466,713	11,397,122	10,326,376

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.