Life in the 2020s

The numbers

The world had about 8.1 billion people, and about 0.93 billion babies were born in the 2020s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 73 years of life; 3% of children died before turning five. Women had about 2.5 children each. Roughly 82% of adults could read, and 53% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were India (18%), China (11%), Nigeria (6%), Pakistan (5%), 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