Global population data

Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

The percentage of the male population ages 15 years and over who currently use any tobacco product (smoked and/or smokeless tobacco) on a daily or non-daily basis. Tobacco products include cigarettes, pipes, cigars, cigarillos, waterpipes (hookah, shisha), bidis, kretek, heated tobacco products, and all forms of smokeless (oral and nasal) tobacco. Tobacco products exclude e-cigarettes (which do not contain tobacco), “e-cigars”, “e-hookahs”, JUUL and “e-pipes”. The rates are age-standardized to the WHO Standard Population.

Prevalence of stunting, male, is the percentage of boys under age 5 whose height for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months. For children up to two years old height is measured by recumbent length. For older children height is measured by stature while standing. The data are based on the WHO's 2006 Child Growth Standards.

The purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor is a currency conversion factor and a spatial price deflator. They convert different currencies to a common currency and, in the process of conversion, equalize their purchasing power by eliminating the differences in price levels between countries, thereby allowing volume or output comparisons of gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure components. This conversion factor is for households and NPISHs Final consumption expenditure and the base currency is the US dollar.

This field includes expenditure on goods and services by the Household and NPISH sector for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.

Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Other people in need of international protection refer to people who are outside their country or territory of origin, typically because they have been forcibly displaced across international borders, who have not been reported under other categories (including asylum-seekers and refugees) but who likely need international protection, including protection against forced return, as well as access to basic services on a temporary or longer-term basis.

Female population between the ages 60 to 64 as a percentage of the total female population.

UNICEF Data Warehouse dataflow WASH_HOUSEHOLD_SUBNAT: WASH Household subnational, by country and year.

Female population between the ages 50 to 54 as a percentage of the total female population.

People practicing open defecation refers to the percentage of the population defecating in the open, such as in fields, forest, bushes, open bodies of water, on beaches, in other open spaces or disposed of with solid waste.

People practicing open defecation refers to the percentage of the population defecating in the open, such as in fields, forest, bushes, open bodies of water, on beaches, in other open spaces or disposed of with solid waste.

This data release provides gridded population distributions (spatial resolution of 30 arc-seconds, approximately 1km grid cells) globally for 2025-2100, quantitatively consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) 3.2 national population scenarios. National population totals at 5-year intervals for 2025-2100 were provided for each SSP scenario. Using WorldPop Global2 R2025A data, subnational population proportions were calculated and summarised at administrative unit level 2, i.e. the percentage of the national population within each administrative unit. Global2 historical settlement data was used to determine the percentage of grid cells that became built settlement per administrative unit in 5-year intervals for 2015-2025 and the number of people per new settlement grid cell. This rate of settlement change was extrapolated into future 5-year intervals (2030-2100) and cross-referenced against a probability of becoming built settlement layer, where the transition probability of non-built-settlement to built-settlement was created following the methodology outlined in Nieves, J. J., etc. The grid cells with the highest probability of becoming built settlement were selected until the required percentage of grid cells was reached. The WorldPop Global2 R2025A population data were populated with new settlement grid cells and normalised so that the national population count was consistent with the SSP totals. Concurrently, the subnational population proportions calculated at administrative unit level 2 were retained during normalisation. These steps were implemented to create the global gridded population distributions for 2015-2100 for each SSP scenario. These data were produced by the WorldPop Research Group at the University of Southampton in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bristol. This work was part of the FuturePop: Constructing high spatial resolution population projections and supporting the provision, access and updates of WorldPop spatial demographic datasets project, funded by the Wellcome Trust (grant 308679/Z/23/Z). For more details about the datasets, please refer to the release statement here

Female population 65 years of age or older. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Female population between the ages 20 to 24 as a percentage of the total female population.

Female population between the ages 35 to 39 as a percentage of the total female population.

Male population between the ages 70 to 74 as a percentage of the total male population.

Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.

UNICEF Data Warehouse dataflow MG: Migration, by country and year.

This field includes expenditure on goods and services by the Household and NPISH sector for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This series is expressed in local currency units.

The LandMark Indigenous and Community Lands dataset is the product of an on-going initiative to map and document the collectively held and used lands and natural resources of Indigenous Peoples and local communities globally (landmarkmap.org). LandMark aggregates maps from numerous local, national, and regional sources into one standardized global dataset based on identity (Indigenous Peoples or local community) and legal recognition status (acknowledged or not acknowledged by government). These areas are displayed as polygons (boundaries) or locational points (when boundaries are not available). The dataset is not complete – experts believe that 50% or more of the world’s land is held or used by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, while coverage of this dataset is a fraction of this; therefore, the absence of data does not mean an absence of indigenous or community land. Data contributions can be submitted to LandMark(). Categories of LandMark Indigenous and community lands are defined as follows: - Indigenous Lands - Acknowledged by Government: lands that are recognized in law as being held or used by peoples who self-identify as indigenous - Indigenous Lands - Not acknowledged by Government: lands that are held or used by peoples who self-identify as indigenous, but the lands are not recognized as such in law; includes lands that are in process of obtaining recognition or customary tenure with no recognition in process - Community Lands - Acknowledged by Government: lands that are recognized in law as being held or used by local communities - Community Lands - Not acknowledged by Government: lands that are held or used by local communities, but the lands are not recognized as such in law; includes lands that are in process of obtaining recognition or customary tenure with no recognition in process - Indicative Areas of Indigenous and Community Lands: areas where indigenous- and community-held lands are likely to exist, but the clear delimitation and/or recognition status of these lands is not currently available. The purpose of this category is to promote awareness of the extent of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ lands even in the absence of detailed demarcation data. More information about the data and typology can be found on LandMark’s [methodology page](). Depicts Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ lands and territories (polygon), classified according to a standard global typology based on identity (Indigenous or community) and legal recognition status.

The average time men spend on household provision of services for own consumption. Data are expressed as a proportion of time in a day. Domestic and care work includes food preparation, dishwashing, cleaning and upkeep of a dwelling, laundry, ironing, gardening, caring for pets, shopping, installation, servicing and repair of personal and household goods, childcare, and care of the sick, elderly or disabled household members, among others.

Account denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution or report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months (richest 60%, share of population ages 15+).

The percentage of people using drinking water from an improved source that is accessible on premises, available when needed and free from fecal and priority chemical contamination. Improved water sources include piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, and packaged or delivered water.

Male population between the ages 30 to 34 as a percentage of the total male population.

Gridded population data for Kosovo, published by WorldPop (University of Southampton). Each raster cell measures the spatial distribution of population, with a reference date of 2030.

Incidence of tuberculosis is the estimated number of new and relapse tuberculosis cases arising in a given year, expressed as the rate per 100,000 population. All forms of TB are included, including cases in people living with HIV. Estimates for all years are recalculated as new information becomes available and techniques are refined, so they may differ from those published previously.

Male population between the ages 80 and above as a percentage of the total male population.

Male population between the ages 45 to 49 as a percentage of the total male population.

The number of distinct, publicly-trusted TLS/SSL certificates found in the Netcraft Secure Server Survey (by hosting country), per 1 million people.

The number of newly registered firms with limited liability per 1,000 working-age people (ages 15-64) per calendar year.

Male population between the ages 35 to 39 as a percentage of the total male population.

Prevalence of overweight, male, is the percentage of boys under age 5 whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations above the median for the international reference population of the corresponding age as established by the WHO's 2006 Child Growth Standards.

Prevalence of stunting, female, is the percentage of girls under age 5 whose height for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months. For children up to two years old height is measured by recumbent length. For older children height is measured by stature while standing. The data are based on the WHO's 2006 Child Growth Standards.

Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.

This indicator provides values for final consumption expenditure per person expressed in current international dollars, converted by purchasing power parities (PPPs). PPPs account for the different price levels across countries and thus PPP-based comparisons of economic output are more appropriate for comparing the output of economies and the average material well-being of their inhabitants than exchange-rate based comparisons. Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure includes expenditure on goods and services by the Household and NPISH sector for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. This series has been linked to produce a consistent time series to counteract breaks in series over time due to changes in base years, source data and methodologies. Thus, it may not be comparable with other national accounts series in the database for historical years. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. The PPP conversion factor is a currency conversion factor and a spatial price deflator. PPPs convert different currencies to a common currency and, in the process of conversion, equalize their purchasing power by eliminating the differences in price levels between countries, thereby allowing volume or output comparisons of GDP and its expenditure components.