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Population - Composition
Percentage of total population under 15 years
Percentage of total population aged 60 years and above, by
sex
Sex ratio in 60+ age group (men/100 women)
Table 1b. Composition of the population |
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Last update: December 2012 |
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Percentage of population |
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Sex ratio in 60+ age group |
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Under 15 years |
60+ years |
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Country |
Year |
Total |
Men |
Women |
men/100 women |
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Afghanistan |
2012 |
46 |
4 |
4 |
98 |
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Albania |
2012 |
22 |
13 |
14 |
91 |
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Algeria |
2012 |
27 |
7 |
8 |
84 |
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American Samoa |
2012 |
** |
34 |
7 |
8 |
91 |
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Andorra |
2011 |
* |
a |
15 |
18 |
19 |
101 |
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Angola |
2012 |
46 |
4 |
4 |
83 |
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Anguilla |
2001 |
* |
b |
28 |
10 |
11 |
88 |
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Antigua and Barbuda |
2005 |
* |
c |
28 |
9 |
10 |
79 |
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Argentina |
2012 |
24 |
13 |
17 |
73 |
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Armenia |
2012 |
20 |
13 |
17 |
64 |
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Aruba |
2012 |
18 |
14 |
17 |
77 |
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Australia1 |
2012 |
19 |
18 |
21 |
89 |
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Austria |
2012 |
14 |
21 |
26 |
77 |
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Azerbaijan2 |
2012 |
21 |
8 |
10 |
75 |
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Bahamas |
2012 |
22 |
10 |
12 |
75 |
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Bahrain |
2012 |
20 |
3 |
4 |
127 |
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Bangladesh |
2012 |
30 |
7 |
7 |
96 |
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Barbados |
2012 |
17 |
15 |
19 |
75 |
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Belarus |
2012 |
15 |
14 |
23 |
53 |
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Belgium |
2012 |
17 |
22 |
26 |
80 |
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Belize |
2012 |
34 |
6 |
6 |
91 |
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Benin |
2012 |
43 |
4 |
5 |
71 |
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Bermuda |
2010 |
* |
a |
17 |
17 |
20 |
74 |
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Bhutan |
2012 |
28 |
7 |
7 |
107 |
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Bolivia (Plurinational State of) |
2012 |
35 |
7 |
8 |
82 |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina |
2012 |
14 |
18 |
22 |
77 |
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Botswana |
2012 |
32 |
6 |
7 |
78 |
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Brazil |
2012 |
24 |
10 |
12 |
81 |
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British Virgin Islands |
2001 |
* |
b |
26 |
7 |
7 |
109 |
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Brunei Darussalam |
2012 |
26 |
7 |
6 |
113 |
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Bulgaria |
2012 |
14 |
22 |
28 |
72 |
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Burkina Faso |
2012 |
45 |
3 |
4 |
68 |
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Burundi |
2012 |
37 |
4 |
5 |
69 |
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Cambodia |
2012 |
31 |
5 |
8 |
64 |
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Cameroon |
2012 |
40 |
5 |
6 |
85 |
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Canada |
2012 |
16 |
19 |
22 |
85 |
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Cape Verde |
2012 |
30 |
6 |
9 |
65 |
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Cayman Islands |
2010 |
* |
d |
18 |
8 |
9 |
92 |
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Central African Republic |
2012 |
40 |
5 |
7 |
80 |
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Chad |
2012 |
45 |
4 |
5 |
84 |
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Channel Islands3 |
2012 |
15 |
22 |
26 |
85 |
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Chile |
2012 |
21 |
12 |
15 |
80 |
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China4 |
2012 |
19 |
12 |
14 |
95 |
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China, Hong Kong SAR5 |
2012 |
11 |
19 |
19 |
90 |
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China, Macao SAR6 |
2012 |
13 |
13 |
11 |
109 |
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Colombia |
2012 |
28 |
8 |
10 |
80 |
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Comoros |
2012 |
43 |
4 |
5 |
86 |
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Congo |
2012 |
41 |
5 |
6 |
86 |
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Cook Islands |
2012 |
** |
27 |
12 |
13 |
98 |
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Costa Rica |
2012 |
24 |
10 |
11 |
91 |
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Côte d'Ivoire |
2012 |
40 |
6 |
6 |
117 |
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Croatia |
2012 |
15 |
21 |
27 |
70 |
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Cuba |
2012 |
17 |
17 |
19 |
90 |
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Cyprus7 |
2012 |
17 |
15 |
19 |
86 |
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Czech Republic |
2012 |
14 |
20 |
26 |
74 |
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Dem. People's Republic of Korea |
2012 |
22 |
11 |
16 |
63 |
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Democratic Republic of the Congo |
2012 |
46 |
4 |
5 |
81 |
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Denmark |
2012 |
18 |
22 |
25 |
86 |
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Djibouti |
2012 |
35 |
5 |
6 |
84 |
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Dominica |
2006 |
* |
c |
29 |
12 |
15 |
80 |
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Dominican Republic |
2012 |
30 |
9 |
9 |
96 |
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Ecuador |
2012 |
30 |
9 |
10 |
89 |
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Egypt |
2012 |
31 |
8 |
9 |
85 |
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El Salvador |
2012 |
31 |
9 |
11 |
75 |
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Equatorial Guinea |
2012 |
39 |
5 |
4 |
111 |
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Eritrea |
2012 |
42 |
3 |
5 |
64 |
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Estonia |
2012 |
16 |
18 |
28 |
55 |
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Ethiopia |
2012 |
40 |
5 |
6 |
87 |
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Faeroe Islands |
2008 |
* |
a |
22 |
18 |
21 |
95 |
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Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
2006 |
* |
b |
16 |
14 |
14 |
117 |
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Fiji |
2012 |
29 |
8 |
9 |
91 |
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Finland8 |
2012 |
16 |
23 |
28 |
79 |
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France |
2012 |
18 |
21 |
26 |
78 |
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French Guiana |
2012 |
33 |
8 |
8 |
101 |
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French Polynesia |
2012 |
24 |
10 |
10 |
96 |
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Gabon |
2012 |
35 |
6 |
7 |
92 |
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Gambia |
2012 |
43 |
4 |
3 |
110 |
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Georgia9 |
2012 |
17 |
17 |
22 |
66 |
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Germany |
2012 |
13 |
24 |
29 |
80 |
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Ghana |
2012 |
38 |
6 |
6 |
94 |
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Gibraltar |
2001 |
* |
b |
18 |
18 |
23 |
76 |
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Greece |
2012 |
15 |
22 |
27 |
81 |
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Greenland |
2011 |
* |
a |
22 |
11 |
11 |
117 |
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Grenada |
2012 |
27 |
8 |
11 |
75 |
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Guadeloupe10 |
2012 |
22 |
17 |
19 |
77 |
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Guam |
2012 |
27 |
11 |
12 |
91 |
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Guatemala |
2012 |
41 |
6 |
7 |
87 |
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Guinea |
2012 |
43 |
5 |
6 |
86 |
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Guinea-Bissau |
2012 |
41 |
5 |
6 |
86 |
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Guyana |
2012 |
31 |
6 |
8 |
76 |
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Haiti |
2012 |
35 |
6 |
7 |
84 |
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Honduras |
2012 |
36 |
6 |
7 |
91 |
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Hungary |
2012 |
15 |
19 |
27 |
64 |
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Iceland |
2012 |
21 |
17 |
18 |
91 |
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India |
2012 |
30 |
7 |
9 |
92 |
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Indonesia |
2012 |
26 |
8 |
9 |
83 |
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Iran (Islamic Republic of) |
2012 |
23 |
8 |
8 |
102 |
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Iraq |
2012 |
43 |
4 |
6 |
73 |
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Ireland |
2012 |
22 |
16 |
18 |
88 |
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Isle of Man |
2011 |
* |
d |
18 |
e |
16 |
f |
19 |
f |
83 |
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Israel |
2012 |
27 |
14 |
17 |
80 |
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Italy |
2012 |
14 |
24 |
30 |
78 |
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Jamaica |
2012 |
28 |
10 |
11 |
88 |
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Japan |
2012 |
13 |
29 |
34 |
79 |
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Jordan |
2012 |
36 |
6 |
6 |
103 |
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Kazakhstan |
2012 |
25 |
8 |
13 |
55 |
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Kenya |
2012 |
42 |
4 |
5 |
84 |
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Kiribati |
2012 |
** |
34 |
5 |
7 |
72 |
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Kuwait |
2012 |
27 |
4 |
4 |
164 |
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Kyrgyzstan |
2012 |
30 |
5 |
7 |
70 |
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Lao People's Democratic Republic |
2012 |
33 |
5 |
7 |
82 |
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Latvia |
2012 |
14 |
18 |
28 |
54 |
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Lebanon |
2012 |
24 |
10 |
11 |
84 |
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Lesotho |
2012 |
37 |
5 |
7 |
67 |
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Liberia |
2012 |
43 |
4 |
5 |
82 |
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Libya |
2012 |
31 |
7 |
7 |
98 |
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Liechtenstein |
2011 |
* |
a |
16 |
19 |
21 |
87 |
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Lithuania |
2012 |
15 |
16 |
26 |
55 |
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Luxembourg |
2012 |
18 |
17 |
21 |
83 |
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Madagascar |
2012 |
42 |
5 |
5 |
90 |
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Malawi |
2012 |
46 |
4 |
5 |
83 |
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Malaysia11 |
2012 |
29 |
8 |
9 |
97 |
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Maldives |
2012 |
25 |
7 |
7 |
111 |
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Mali |
2012 |
47 |
3 |
4 |
70 |
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Malta |
2012 |
14 |
21 |
25 |
82 |
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Marshall Islands |
2012 |
** |
41 |
4 |
5 |
99 |
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Martinique |
2012 |
19 |
19 |
22 |
75 |
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Mauritania |
2012 |
39 |
4 |
5 |
76 |
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Mauritius12 |
2012 |
21 |
10 |
13 |
78 |
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Mayotte |
2012 |
47 |
3 |
3 |
112 |
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Mexico |
2012 |
28 |
9 |
10 |
87 |
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Micronesia (Fed. States of) |
2012 |
36 |
6 |
7 |
89 |
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Monaco |
2000 |
* |
d |
13 |
26 |
32 |
78 |
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Mongolia |
2012 |
28 |
5 |
7 |
76 |
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Montenegro |
2012 |
19 |
16 |
20 |
77 |
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Montserrat |
2011 |
* |
b |
19 |
19 |
21 |
103 |
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Morocco |
2012 |
27 |
8 |
9 |
88 |
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Mozambique |
2012 |
44 |
5 |
6 |
77 |
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Myanmar |
2012 |
25 |
8 |
9 |
83 |
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Namibia |
2012 |
36 |
5 |
7 |
76 |
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Nauru |
2012 |
** |
35 |
3 |
3 |
93 |
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Nepal |
2012 |
35 |
6 |
7 |
81 |
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Netherlands |
2012 |
17 |
21 |
24 |
85 |
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Netherlands Antilles13 |
2012 |
20 |
15 |
17 |
77 |
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New Caledonia |
2012 |
25 |
12 |
13 |
92 |
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New Zealand |
2012 |
20 |
18 |
20 |
88 |
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Nicaragua |
2012 |
33 |
6 |
7 |
86 |
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Niger |
2012 |
49 |
4 |
4 |
94 |
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Nigeria |
2012 |
43 |
5 |
6 |
89 |
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Niue |
2012 |
** |
24 |
15 |
19 |
73 |
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Northern Mariana Islands |
2012 |
** |
26 |
7 |
7 |
95 |
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Norway14 |
2012 |
19 |
20 |
23 |
86 |
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Occupied Palestinian Territory15 |
2012 |
41 |
4 |
5 |
94 |
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Oman |
2012 |
27 |
4 |
5 |
138 |
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Pakistan |
2012 |
34 |
7 |
6 |
105 |
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Palau |
2012 |
** |
20 |
9 |
11 |
91 |
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Panama |
2012 |
28 |
10 |
11 |
93 |
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Papua New Guinea |
2012 |
38 |
4 |
5 |
81 |
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Paraguay |
2012 |
33 |
8 |
8 |
95 |
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Peru |
2012 |
29 |
9 |
10 |
87 |
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Philippines |
2012 |
35 |
5 |
7 |
79 |
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Poland |
2012 |
15 |
17 |
24 |
68 |
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Portugal |
2012 |
15 |
22 |
27 |
76 |
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Puerto Rico |
2012 |
21 |
17 |
20 |
76 |
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Qatar |
2012 |
14 |
2 |
3 |
245 |
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Republic of Korea |
2012 |
16 |
15 |
19 |
77 |
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Republic of Moldova16 |
2012 |
17 |
14 |
19 |
67 |
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Réunion |
2012 |
25 |
11 |
13 |
82 |
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Romania |
2012 |
15 |
18 |
24 |
71 |
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Russian Federation |
2012 |
16 |
14 |
23 |
53 |
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Rwanda |
2012 |
43 |
4 |
5 |
84 |
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Saint Helena 17 |
2008 |
* |
c |
15 |
23 |
23 |
105 |
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Saint Kitts and Nevis |
2000 |
* |
c |
31 |
10 |
12 |
89 |
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Saint Lucia |
2012 |
25 |
9 |
11 |
77 |
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
2006 |
* |
b |
19 |
15 |
21 |
70 |
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
2012 |
26 |
9 |
11 |
87 |
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Samoa |
2012 |
37 |
7 |
9 |
82 |
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San Marino |
2004 |
* |
c |
15 |
20 |
23 |
82 |
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Sao Tome and Principe |
2012 |
39 |
5 |
6 |
76 |
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Saudi Arabia |
2012 |
30 |
5 |
5 |
110 |
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Senegal |
2012 |
43 |
4 |
4 |
87 |
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Serbia18 |
2012 |
17 |
18 |
23 |
80 |
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Seychelles |
2011 |
* |
c |
22 |
9 |
12 |
72 |
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Sierra Leone |
2012 |
43 |
4 |
4 |
97 |
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Singapore |
2012 |
16 |
15 |
16 |
90 |
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Slovakia |
2012 |
15 |
15 |
21 |
67 |
|||||||
Slovenia |
2012 |
14 |
20 |
27 |
73 |
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Solomon Islands |
2012 |
39 |
5 |
6 |
92 |
|||||||
Somalia |
2012 |
45 |
4 |
5 |
85 |
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South Africa |
2012 |
30 |
6 |
9 |
68 |
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Spain19 |
2012 |
15 |
20 |
25 |
79 |
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Sri Lanka |
2012 |
25 |
12 |
14 |
85 |
|||||||
Sudan20 |
2012 |
40 |
5 |
6 |
89 |
|||||||
Suriname |
2012 |
28 |
8 |
11 |
79 |
|||||||
Swaziland |
2012 |
37 |
5 |
6 |
76 |
|||||||
Sweden |
2012 |
17 |
24 |
27 |
87 |
|||||||
Switzerland |
2012 |
15 |
21 |
25 |
81 |
|||||||
Syrian Arab Republic |
2012 |
35 |
6 |
7 |
94 |
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Tajikistan |
2012 |
36 |
4 |
6 |
77 |
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TFYR Macedonia21 |
2012 |
17 |
16 |
19 |
80 |
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Thailand |
2012 |
20 |
13 |
15 |
83 |
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Timor-Leste |
2012 |
45 |
5 |
5 |
90 |
|||||||
Togo |
2012 |
39 |
5 |
6 |
85 |
|||||||
Tokelau |
2012 |
** |
32 |
11 |
14 |
84 |
||||||
Tonga |
2012 |
37 |
7 |
9 |
76 |
|||||||
Trinidad and Tobago |
2012 |
20 |
9 |
13 |
68 |
|||||||
Tunisia |
2012 |
23 |
10 |
11 |
93 |
|||||||
Turkey |
2012 |
26 |
9 |
10 |
83 |
|||||||
Turkmenistan |
2012 |
29 |
5 |
7 |
73 |
|||||||
Turks and Caicos Islands |
2001 |
* |
b |
29 |
5 |
6 |
85 |
|||||
Tuvalu |
2012 |
** |
31 |
7 |
10 |
68 |
||||||
Uganda |
2012 |
48 |
3 |
4 |
82 |
|||||||
Ukraine |
2012 |
15 |
16 |
25 |
54 |
|||||||
United Arab Emirates |
2012 |
17 |
2 |
1 |
292 |
|||||||
United Kingdom |
2012 |
17 |
21 |
25 |
84 |
|||||||
United Republic of Tanzania22 |
2012 |
45 |
4 |
5 |
82 |
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United States of America |
2012 |
20 |
17 |
21 |
80 |
|||||||
United States Virgin Islands |
2012 |
20 |
21 |
24 |
80 |
|||||||
Uruguay |
2012 |
22 |
16 |
21 |
69 |
|||||||
Uzbekistan |
2012 |
28 |
6 |
7 |
79 |
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Vanuatu |
2012 |
38 |
6 |
6 |
103 |
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Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) |
2012 |
29 |
9 |
10 |
89 |
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Viet Nam |
2012 |
23 |
8 |
10 |
74 |
|||||||
Wallis and Futuna Islands |
2012 |
** |
26 |
13 |
14 |
94 |
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Western Sahara |
2012 |
28 |
5 |
4 |
129 |
|||||||
Yemen |
2012 |
44 |
4 |
4 |
84 |
|||||||
Zambia |
2012 |
47 |
4 |
5 |
81 |
|||||||
Zimbabwe |
2012 |
38 |
5 |
7 |
75 |
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Footnotes |
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* |
Data compiled by the United Nations Demographic Yearbook system. Data refer to the latest available census, except where noted. |
** |
Data compiled by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Demography Programme. |
a |
De jure estimate. |
b |
De facto population count. |
c |
De facto estimate. |
d |
De jure population count. |
e |
Refer to age 0-15 |
f |
Refer to age 65+ |
1 |
Including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island. |
2 |
Including Nagorno-Karabakh. |
3 |
Refers to Guernsey, and Jersey. |
4 |
For statistical purposes, the data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao, Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of China. |
5 |
As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. |
6 |
As of 20 December 1999, Macao became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. |
7 |
Including Northern-Cyprus. |
8 |
Including Åland Islands. |
9 |
Including Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
10 |
Including Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin (French part). |
11 |
Including Sabah and Sarawak. |
12 |
Including Agalega, Rodrigues, and Saint Brandon. |
13 |
Refers to Curaçao, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius. |
14 |
Including Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands. |
15 |
Including East Jerusalem. |
16 |
Including Transnistria. |
17 |
Including Saint Helena ex. Dep (Refers to de facto national estimate), Ascension (Refers to de jure national estimate), and Tristan da Cunha (Refers to de facto national estimate). |
18 |
Including Kosovo. |
19 |
Including Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla. |
20 |
Including Southern Sudan which voted in favor of independence, but was not an official UN Member State as of May 2011. |
21 |
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. |
22 |
Including Zanzibar. |
Sources: |
Calculated by the United Nations Statistics Division based on data published by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011), World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. available in http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm; supplemented by official national statistics published in the United Nations Demographic Yearbook, available from the United Nations Statistics Division website, http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/default.htm and data compiled by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Statistics and Demography Programme, available from the SPC website, http://www.spc.int/sdp. |
Technical notes: |
The percentage of population under 15 years refers to the percentage of the total population aged 0 to 14 years. The percentage of the female and male population aged 60+ refer to the percentage of the female population who are 60 years and older and the percentage of the male population who are 60 years and older, respectively. |
The medium variant projections for 2012 refer to 1 July of the given year and assume the following: Total fertility in all countries eventually converges toward a level of 1.85 children per woman by the end of the projection period (2010-2050). However, not all countries reach this level during the projection period. The basic principle of the fertility projection is the same for all countries, but projection procedures are slightly different depending on whether countries had a total fertility above or below 1.85 children per woman in 2010-2015. Mortality is projected on the basis of models of change of life expectancy that produce smaller gains the higher the life expectancy already reached. The selection of the model for each country is based on recent trends in life expectancy by sex. For the 60 countries highly affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS are made by explicitly modeling the course of the epidemic and by projecting the yearly incidence of HIV infection. International migration is projected on the basis of past international migration estimates and an assessment of the policy stance of countries with regard to future international migration flows.
Estimates of the population by age and sex are prepared by the Population Divison of the United Nations Secretariat and revised every two years in order to incorporate new data. In general, these population figures are estimates of persons resident in the country or area at mid-year. They are usually based on population census data adjusted to the specified year, taking account of birth, death and international migration rates as determined from population surveys and registers and other national sources available. |
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