{"id":83990,"date":"2019-07-21T18:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T22:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83990"},"modified":"2019-07-21T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T22:23:26","slug":"pr-facttank-which-7-countries-hold-half-the-worlds-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83990","title":{"rendered":"(PR FactTank) Which 7 countries hold half the world\u2019s population?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of this month, the world\u2019s population is 7.63 billion, according to the United Nations<\/a>, which celebrates World Population Day today. More than half of all people around the globe (3.97 billion) live in just seven countries, according to the UN\u2019s estimates. China has the world\u2019s largest population (1.42 billion), followed by India (1.35 billion). The next five most populous nations \u2013 the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Nigeria \u2013 together have fewer people than India.<\/p>\n

As recently as 2014, half the world\u2019s population was concentrated in just six countries \u2013 the same nations as above, with the exception of Nigeria. Recent population growth, however, has been faster in the rest of the world than in these six nations, meaning that the top six now hold slightly less than half (49.4%) of the world\u2019s people. Including Nigeria\u2019s nearly 200 million people puts the world\u2019s seven most populous countries at 52% of the global population.<\/p>\n

The demographic future for the U.S. and the world looks very different than it did in the recent past. Growth from 1950 to 2010 was rapid<\/a> \u2014 the global population nearly tripled, and the U.S. population doubled. However, population growth in future decades is projected to be significantly slower<\/a> and is expected to tilt strongly to the oldest age groups, both globally and in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Pew Research Global (@pewglobal) July 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n