UN World Population Prospects
The UN's official population estimates and projections for every country — age structures, fertility, mortality, migration, and urbanisation through 2100
population.un.orgThe World Population Prospects is the UN’s biennial population reference. The 2024 revision provides estimates (1950-2023) and projections (2024-2100) for 237 countries, including India. Data includes total population, age and sex structure, fertility rates, life expectancy, international migration, and urban/rural population shares. For India, the 2023 estimate of 1.43 billion people surpassing China made global headlines — but WPP data supports far more granular questions about India’s demographic dividend, ageing curve, urbanisation trajectory, and state-level population projections.
Details
- Kind
- Data source
- Run by
- Multilateral
- Topics
- Where
- Global, India
- Licence
- Open licence
- Cost
- Free