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
I suspect there's a good chance that populations in Western nations could be significantly higher than predicted according to your link. The reason for this is that we should expect natural selection to select for whatever traits maximize fertility in the modern environment, such as higher religiosity. This will likely lead to fertility rates rebounding in the next several generations. The sorts of people who aren't reproducing in the modern environment are being weeded out of the gene pool, and we are likely undergoing selection pressure for "breeders" with a strong instinctive desire to have as many biological children as possible. Certain religious groups, like the Old Order Amish, Hutterites, and Haredim are also growing exponentially, and will likely be demographically dominant in the future.
I think this is a relevant consideration, but murkier than it appears at first glance.