Below replacement reference
Total fertility rate is below the approximate 2.1 low-mortality reference; actual replacement fertility varies.
131countries and areas
67.6%of 2024 projected global population
5.52bnpeople in the cohort
| Holy See | Europe | 1950 | 496 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serbia | Europe | 1963 | 6,736,216 |
| Croatia | Europe | 1968 | 3,875,325 |
| Denmark | Europe | 1969 | 5,977,412 |
| Finland | Europe | 1969 | 5,617,310 |
| Luxembourg | Europe | 1969 | 673,036 |
| Germany | Europe | 1970 | 84,552,242 |
| Jersey | Europe | 1970 | 103,846 |
| Liechtenstein | Europe | 1970 | 39,870 |
| Saint Barthélemy | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1970 | 11,258 |
| Guernsey | Europe | 1971 | 64,280 |
| Switzerland | Europe | 1971 | 8,921,981 |
| Austria | Europe | 1972 | 9,120,813 |
| Belgium | Europe | 1972 | 11,738,763 |
| Canada | Northern America | 1972 | 39,742,430 |
| United States of America | Northern America | 1972 | 345,426,571 |
| Netherlands | Europe | 1973 | 18,228,742 |
| United Kingdom | Europe | 1973 | 69,138,192 |
| Bermuda | Northern America | 1974 | 64,636 |
| Japan | Asia | 1974 | 123,753,041 |
| France | Europe | 1975 | 66,548,530 |
| Norway | Europe | 1975 | 5,576,660 |
| San Marino | Europe | 1975 | 33,581 |
| Singapore | Asia | 1975 | 5,832,387 |
| Australia | Oceania | 1976 | 26,713,205 |
| Isle of Man | Europe | 1976 | 84,160 |
| Italy | Europe | 1976 | 59,342,867 |
| Andorra | Europe | 1977 | 81,938 |
| Barbados | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1978 | 282,467 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Europe | 1978 | 3,164,253 |
| Cuba | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1978 | 10,979,783 |
| Hungary | Europe | 1978 | 9,676,135 |
| Malta | Europe | 1978 | 539,607 |
| Bulgaria | Europe | 1980 | 6,757,689 |
| China, Hong Kong SAR | Asia | 1980 | 7,414,909 |
| Czechia | Europe | 1980 | 10,735,859 |
| Slovenia | Europe | 1981 | 2,118,697 |
| Spain | Europe | 1981 | 47,910,526 |
| Cayman Islands | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1982 | 74,457 |
| Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1982 | 3,470 |
| Greece | Europe | 1982 | 10,047,817 |
| Portugal | Europe | 1982 | 10,425,292 |
| British Virgin Islands | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1984 | 39,471 |
| China, Taiwan Province of China | Asia | 1984 | 23,213,962 |
| Republic of Korea | Asia | 1984 | 51,717,590 |
| Martinique | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1985 | 343,195 |
| Montenegro | Europe | 1986 | 638,479 |
| Belarus | Europe | 1987 | 9,056,696 |
| China, Macao SAR | Asia | 1987 | 720,262 |
| Ukraine | Europe | 1987 | 37,860,221 |
| Lithuania | Europe | 1988 | 2,859,110 |
| Latvia | Europe | 1989 | 1,871,871 |
| Poland | Europe | 1989 | 38,539,201 |
| Russian Federation | Europe | 1989 | 144,820,423 |
| Slovakia | Europe | 1989 | 5,506,760 |
| Estonia | Europe | 1990 | 1,360,546 |
| Romania | Europe | 1990 | 19,015,088 |
| Thailand | Asia | 1990 | 71,668,011 |
| China | Asia | 1991 | 1,419,321,278 |
| Ireland | Europe | 1991 | 5,255,017 |
| Saint Helena | Africa | 1991 | 5,237 |
| Anguilla | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1992 | 14,598 |
| Sweden | Europe | 1992 | 10,606,999 |
| Armenia | Asia | 1994 | 2,973,840 |
| Montserrat | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1994 | 4,389 |
| Republic of Moldova | Europe | 1994 | 3,034,961 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1994 | 1,507,782 |
| Cyprus | Asia | 1995 | 1,358,282 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Northern America | 1995 | 5,628 |
| Dem. People's Republic of Korea | Asia | 1996 | 26,498,823 |
| North Macedonia | Europe | 1996 | 1,823,009 |
| Mauritius | Africa | 1997 | 1,271,169 |
| Aruba | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1998 | 108,066 |
| Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1998 | 30,675 |
| Palau | Oceania | 1998 | 17,695 |
| Puerto Rico | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1998 | 3,242,204 |
| Chile | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1999 | 19,764,771 |
| Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Asia | 1999 | 91,567,738 |
| Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1999 | 43,350 |
| Bahamas | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2000 | 401,283 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2001 | 93,772 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2001 | 46,843 |
| Albania | Europe | 2002 | 2,791,765 |
| Brazil | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2002 | 211,998,573 |
| Gibraltar | Europe | 2002 | 39,329 |
| Saint Lucia | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2002 | 179,744 |
| Costa Rica | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2003 | 5,129,910 |
| Dominica | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2003 | 66,205 |
| Uruguay | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2004 | 3,386,588 |
| Brunei Darussalam | Asia | 2005 | 462,721 |
| Jamaica | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2006 | 2,839,175 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2006 | 46,535 |
| United Arab Emirates | Asia | 2006 | 11,027,129 |
| Colombia | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2009 | 52,886,363 |
| Grenada | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2009 | 117,207 |
| French Polynesia | Oceania | 2011 | 281,807 |
| Greenland | Northern America | 2011 | 55,840 |
| Iceland | Europe | 2011 | 393,396 |
| Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244) | Europe | 2011 | 1,684,790 |
| New Zealand | Oceania | 2011 | 5,213,944 |
| Qatar | Asia | 2011 | 3,048,423 |
| Bhutan | Asia | 2012 | 791,524 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | Oceania | 2012 | 11,277 |
| Cabo Verde | Africa | 2013 | 524,877 |
| Curaçao | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2013 | 185,482 |
| Malaysia | Asia | 2013 | 35,557,673 |
| Maldives | Asia | 2014 | 527,799 |
| Azerbaijan | Asia | 2015 | 10,336,577 |
| El Salvador | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2015 | 6,338,193 |
| New Caledonia | Oceania | 2015 | 292,639 |
| Sri Lanka | Asia | 2015 | 23,103,565 |
| Bahrain | Asia | 2016 | 1,607,049 |
| Mexico | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2016 | 130,861,007 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2016 | 100,616 |
| Viet Nam | Asia | 2016 | 100,987,686 |
| Türkiye | Asia | 2017 | 87,473,805 |
| Argentina | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2018 | 45,696,159 |
| Georgia | Asia | 2018 | 3,807,670 |
| Ecuador | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2019 | 18,135,478 |
| Kuwait | Asia | 2019 | 4,934,507 |
| Nepal | Asia | 2019 | 29,651,054 |
| Peru | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2019 | 34,217,848 |
| Belize | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2020 | 417,072 |
| India | Asia | 2020 | 1,450,935,791 |
| Philippines | Asia | 2020 | 115,843,670 |
| Tunisia | Africa | 2020 | 12,277,109 |
| Cook Islands | Oceania | 2021 | 13,729 |
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2022 | 28,405,543 |
| Guadeloupe | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2023 | 375,106 |
| United States Virgin Islands | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2023 | 84,905 |
| Myanmar | Asia | 2024 | 54,500,091 |
Milestone cohorts overlap and must not be added together. “Since” is the start of the current uninterrupted state or the first year the milestone is reached in the WPP series. Membership and population evidence are labeled separately.
SOURCE · UN WPP 2024 CHECKS PASSED · DETAILS⌄
Releasewpp2024
RevisionPOP/DB/WPP/Rev.2024/GEN/F01/Rev.1
Retrieved2026-06-25T11:25:03+00:00
LicenceCC BY 3.0 IGO
Formulapopulation-state-v2 · global-population-share-by-state-and-milestone-v1
Transformreproducible canonical pipeline
Measurement universeall 237 WPP country and area records in the canonical Register
Reference time2024 projected population; source observations through 2023
Unitcountry/area count · people · share of summed population
Evidence statusprojected cohort membership · projected population