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| Population | 6,706,993,152 (July 2008 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 (2008 est.) | | | Population growth rate | 1.188% (2009 est.) | | | Birth rate | 20.18 births/1,000 population (2008 est.) | | | Death rate | 8.23 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.) | | | 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: 42.09 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 44.91 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 39.09 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.) | | | Life expectancy at birth | total population: 66.26 years
male: 64.3 years
female: 68.35 years (2008 est.) | | | Total fertility rate | 2.61 children born/woman (2008 est.) | | 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 (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.) | |
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