United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
World Population Prospects 2024
Population estimates for 1950-2023 and projections to 2100 for 237 countries and areas and for UN, SDG, World Bank income and geographic aggregates: total population on 1 January and 1 July (thousands), density, age, births, deaths, life expectancy, fertility and net migration. The medium projection is used. Used as the per-capita denominator for projections and long histories; it differs slightly from World Bank population figures, so each chart uses one or the other and says which.
Numbers published from it
None yet: this source is registered and its licence checked, and its numbers are being prepared.
Licence and credit
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
- What the terms say
“Copyright © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO”
From the producer's terms, checked 2026-10-04; re-checked automatically every week.
- Credit we give
- United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. CC BY 3.0 IGO.
- Copy of the raw file
- Allowed: we keep a public copy of every version we use.
- Cite as
- United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition.
Files
WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gz (gzip-compressed CSV): one row per location and year, estimates 1950-2023 and medium projection 2024-2100, with total population (thousands) and the other demographic indicators. 16,557,272 bytes compressed.
https://population.un.org/wpp/assets/Excel%20Files/1_Indicator%20(Standard)/CSV_FILES/WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gzWPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_notes.csv: each indicator's code, topic, full name and unit (for example TPopulation1July, "Total Population, as of 1 July", thousands). 4,370 bytes.
https://population.un.org/wpp/assets/Excel%20Files/1_Indicator%20(Standard)/CSV_FILES/WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_notes.csvWPP2024_CSV_files_update.zip (19 January 2026): eleven CSV files with Togo's revised estimates and medium projection, including WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium_Update.csv (same columns as the main file). 943,827 bytes.
https://population.un.org/wpp/assets/Excel%20Files/1_Indicator%20(Standard)/WPP2024_CSV_files_update.zip
Status
- Programme
- WPP 2024 was released on 11 July 2024; an interim update for Togo followed on 19 January 2026. The next revision, planned for 2026, has been postponed to 11 July 2027. A UN product, not a US federal programme.
- Updates
- Biennial revisions (the 2026 revision postponed to July 2027), with occasional interim updates
- Next release
- 2027-07-11: Next World Population Prospects revision, as announced on the WPP downloads page (Interim Update tab).
- Last check
- Unchanged since the last fetch (2026-10-05T11:04:46Z)