The UN releases an update of its World Population Prospects every two years. Its latest release was due in 2021 but was delayed as a result of the pandemic. But today, the long-awaited dataset has been released.
With early access to this new UN data, we have published a new Population and Demography Data Explorer on Our World in Data, where you can explore this full dataset in detail.
To complement this data explorer, we've also published a post on the Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects.
All metrics are available:
- For every country in the world, continent, and World Bank income group
- With projection scenarios up to the year 2100
- Broken down by sex and age group
Here's the full list of metrics:
- Population
- Age structure
- Population density
- Births (absolute & rate)
- Deaths (absolute & rate / all ages, child, infant)
- Life expectancy
- Migration
- Sex ratio
- Dependency ratio
- Median age
Have you looked at the fertility rate underlying the UN projections? They're projecting fertility rates across China, Japan, Europe, and the United States to arrest their yearly decline and begin to slowly move up back to somewhere in the 1.5 to 1.6 range.
That seems way too high because it's assuming not just that current trends stop but that they reverse to the opposite direction of that observed. Even their "low" scenario has fertility rebounding from a low in ~2030.
This despite all those countries still have a way to go before they get to the low South Korea has reached at 0.88.
See https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demography?time=2000..latest&facet=none&country=High-income+countries~OWID_WRL~NGA~CHN~IND~Europe+%28UN%29~USA~JPN~KOR&hideControls=true&Metric=Fertility+rate&Sex=Both+sexes&Age+group=Total&Projection+Scenario=Low