United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division

The UN Population Division's World Population Prospects gives population estimates from 1950 and projections to 2100 for every country, using one consistent method. Projections here are the medium variant.

Reuse and attribution

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO
Attribution used: Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024
Conditions: World Population Prospects 2024 is published under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO. Values are shown unaltered with the edition named; projections are labelled as projections and are never shown as latest figures.
Terms: population.un.org
Role: Produces and publishes its own statistics.

How the data is collected

Public bulk CSV of the standard demographic indicators (gzip), shared by every measure and downloaded at most once a day. No key required. The Data Portal API needs a personal token and is not used.

Annual series are checked about once a week and monthly or quarterly series daily. A check that finds no change does not create a new version. The most recent change was collected on 9 November 2026.

Measures by frequency: Annual 7 .

Measures from UN Population Division (7)

Measure	Dataset or series	Original producer	Frequency
Population, estimates and projections to 2100	WPP2024	UN Population Division	Annual
Median age, estimates and projections to 2100	WPP2024	UN Population Division	Annual
Total fertility rate, estimates and projections to 2100	WPP2024	UN Population Division	Annual
Life expectancy at birth, estimates and projections to 2100	WPP2024	UN Population Division	Annual
Life expectancy at age 65, estimates and projections to 2100	WPP2024	UN Population Division	Annual
Population growth rate, estimates and projections to 2100	WPP2024	UN Population Division	Annual
Net migration rate, estimates and projections to 2100	WPP2024	UN Population Division	Annual