Population:
6,790,062,216 (July 2009 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 27.2% (male 950,127,898/female 894,359,186)
15-64 years:
65.2% (male 2,235,114,476/female 2,192,071,874)
65 years and over:
7.6% (male 227,748,114/female 290,640,668) (2009 est.)
Median age:
total: 28.4 years
male:
27.7 years
female:
29 years (2009 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.133% (2009 est.)
Birth rate:
19.86 births/1,000 population (2009 est.)
Death rate:
8.37 deaths/1,000 population (2009 est.)
Urbanization:
urban population: 48.6% of total population (2005)
rate of urbanization:
1.98% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
ten largest urban agglomerations:
Tokyo (Japan) - 35,676,000; New York-Newark (US) - 19,040,000; Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico) - 19,028,000; Mumbai (India) - 18,978,000; Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 18,845,000; Delhi (India) - 15,926,000; Shanghai (China) - 14,987,000; Kolkata (India) - 14,787,000; Dhaka (Bangladesh) - 13,458,000; Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 12,795,000 (2007)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.78 male(s)/female
total population:
1.01 male(s)/female (2009 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 44.13 deaths/1,000 live births
male:
46.19 deaths/1,000 live births
female:
41.92 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 66.12 years
male:
64.29 years
female:
68.07 years (2009 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.56 children born/woman (2009 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.8% (2007 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
33 million (2007 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
2 million (2007 est.)
Religions:
Christians 33.32% (of which Roman Catholics 16.99%, Protestants 5.78%, Orthodox 3.53%, Anglicans 1.25%), Muslims 21.01%, Hindus 13.26%, Buddhists 5.84%, Sikhs 0.35%, Jews 0.23%, Baha'is 0.12%, other religions 11.78%, non-religious 11.77%, atheists 2.32% (2007 est.)
Languages:
Mandarin Chinese 13.22%, Spanish 4.88%, English 4.68%, Arabic 3.12%, Hindi 2.74%, Portuguese 2.69%, Bengali 2.59%, Russian 2.2%, Japanese 1.85%, Standard German 1.44%, French 1.2% (2005 est.)
note:
percents are for "first language" speakers only
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
82%
male:
87%
female:
77%
note:
over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.)
