Born ThenLife in the 2000s
Be born somewhere between 2000 and 2009, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 6.5 billion people, and about 1.33 billion babies were born in the 2000s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 67 years of life; 6% of children died before turning five. Women had about 3.3 children each. Roughly 74% of adults could read, and 45% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were India (21%), China (12%), Nigeria (5%), Pakistan (4%), Indonesia (4%).
From Gapminder and the World Bank, averaged over the world and weighted by births; before 1950 most are estimates. How it works
What happened
- Bracero program and Mexican migration to the United States 1942–2007
- Colombian armed conflict 1964–2016
- Migration to the Gulf 1973–2025
- China's reform and opening 1978–2015
- One-child policy 1980–2015
- HIV/AIDS epidemic in southern and eastern Africa 1985–2015
- Second Congo War 1998–2003
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001–2021
- Iraq War 2003–2011
- 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami 2004
- Mexican drug war 2006–2025
- 2008 financial crisis 2008–2010