World Demographics Profile 2010

Population
6,768,181,146 (July 2010 est.)

Age structure
0-14 years: 27% (male 944,987,919/female 884,268,378)
15-64 years: 65.3% (male 2,234,860,865/female 2,187,838,153)
65 years and over: 7.6% (male 227,164,176/female 289,048,221) (2010 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: 50.5% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 1.85% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
ten largest urban agglomerations: Tokyo (Japan) - 36,669,000; Delhi (India) -
22,157,000; Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 20,262,000; Mumbai (India) - 20,041,000; Mexico
City (Mexico) - 19,460,000; New York-Newark (US) - 19,425,000; Shanghai
(China) - 16,575,000; Kolkata (India) - 15,552,000; Dhaka (Bangladesh) -
14,648,000; Karachi (Pakistan) - 13,125,000 (2009)
Sex ratio
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.79 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 12.65%, Spanish 4.93%, English 4.91%, Arabic 3.31%, Hindi
2.73%, Bengali 2.71%, Portuguese 2.67%, Russian 2.16%, Japanese 1.83%,
Standard German 1.35%, Javanese 1.27% (2008 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.)