Natural decrease
Deaths exceed births in the display-year series.
55countries and areas
27.8%of 2024 projected global population
2.27bnpeople in the cohort
| Germany | Europe | 1972 | 84,552,242 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hungary | Europe | 1981 | 9,676,135 |
| Holy See | Europe | 1983 | 496 |
| Bulgaria | Europe | 1990 | 6,757,689 |
| Croatia | Europe | 1991 | 3,875,325 |
| Ukraine | Europe | 1991 | 37,860,221 |
| Latvia | Europe | 1992 | 1,871,871 |
| Serbia | Europe | 1992 | 6,736,216 |
| Belarus | Europe | 1993 | 9,056,696 |
| Romania | Europe | 1993 | 19,015,088 |
| Lithuania | Europe | 1994 | 2,859,110 |
| Japan | Asia | 2005 | 123,753,041 |
| Saint Helena | Africa | 2006 | 5,237 |
| Italy | Europe | 2007 | 59,342,867 |
| Portugal | Europe | 2009 | 10,425,292 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Europe | 2010 | 3,164,253 |
| Monaco | Europe | 2010 | 38,631 |
| Estonia | Europe | 2011 | 1,360,546 |
| Greece | Europe | 2011 | 10,047,817 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Northern America | 2011 | 5,628 |
| Puerto Rico | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2014 | 3,242,204 |
| Isle of Man | Europe | 2015 | 84,160 |
| San Marino | Europe | 2015 | 33,581 |
| Spain | Europe | 2015 | 47,910,526 |
| Finland | Europe | 2016 | 5,617,310 |
| Guernsey | Europe | 2016 | 64,280 |
| Dominica | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2017 | 66,205 |
| Jersey | Europe | 2017 | 103,846 |
| Russian Federation | Europe | 2017 | 144,820,423 |
| Slovenia | Europe | 2017 | 2,118,697 |
| United States Virgin Islands | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2017 | 84,905 |
| Bermuda | Northern America | 2018 | 64,636 |
| Poland | Europe | 2018 | 38,539,201 |
| Republic of Moldova | Europe | 2018 | 3,034,961 |
| China, Taiwan Province of China | Asia | 2019 | 23,213,962 |
| Cuba | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2019 | 10,979,783 |
| Curaçao | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2019 | 185,482 |
| Czechia | Europe | 2019 | 10,735,859 |
| Republic of Korea | Asia | 2019 | 51,717,590 |
| Montenegro | Europe | 2020 | 638,479 |
| Niue | Oceania | 2020 | 1,819 |
| North Macedonia | Europe | 2020 | 1,823,009 |
| Saint Barthélemy | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2020 | 11,258 |
| Slovakia | Europe | 2020 | 5,506,760 |
| China | Asia | 2021 | 1,419,321,278 |
| China, Hong Kong SAR | Asia | 2021 | 7,414,909 |
| Georgia | Asia | 2021 | 3,807,670 |
| Montserrat | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2021 | 4,389 |
| Palau | Oceania | 2021 | 17,695 |
| Austria | Europe | 2022 | 9,120,813 |
| Belgium | Europe | 2022 | 11,738,763 |
| Thailand | Asia | 2022 | 71,668,011 |
| Aruba | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2023 | 108,066 |
| Martinique | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2024 | 343,195 |
| Uruguay | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2024 | 3,386,588 |
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