Born ThenLife in the 2010s
Be born somewhere between 2010 and 2019, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 7.4 billion people, and about 1.42 billion babies were born in the 2010s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 71 years of life; 4% of children died before turning five. Women had about 3 children each. Roughly 78% of adults could read, and 50% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were India (19%), 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
- 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
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001–2021
- Iraq War 2003–2011
- Mexican drug war 2006–2025
- 2008 financial crisis 2008–2010
- Syrian civil war 2011–2024
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 2011
- Rohingya genocide 2016–2017