World People:
Population:
6,446,131,400 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 27.8% (male:919,726,623; female:870,468,158)
15-64 years: 64.9% (male:2,117,230,183; female:2,066,864,970)
65 years and over: 7.3% (male:207,903,775; female:263,627,270) (2005)
note: Some countries do not maintain age structure information, thus a slight discrepancy exists between the total world population and the total for world age structure
Median age:
total: 27.6 years
male: 27 years
female: 28.2 years (2005)
Population growth rate:
1.14% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
20.15 births
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
8.78 deaths
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06
under 15 years: 1.06
15-64 years: 1.03
65 years and over: 0.79
total population: 1.01 (2005)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 50.11 deaths
/
1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 52.1 deaths
/
1,000 live births
female: 48.01 deaths
/
1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total: 64.33 years (2005 est.)
male: 62.73 years
female: 66.04 years
Total fertility rate:
2.6 children born/woman (2005 est.)
HIV/AIDS — adult prevalence rate:
NA
HIV/AIDS — people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS — deaths:
NA
Religions:
Christians (of which Roman Catholics 17.34%, Protestants 5.78%, Orthodox 3.44%, Anglicans 1.27%) 32.84%, Muslims 19.9%, Hindus 13.29%, Buddhists 5.92%, Sikhs 0.39%, Jews 0.23%, other religions 12.63%, non-religious 12.44%, atheists 2.36% (2003)
Languages:
Chinese, Mandarin 13.69%, Hindi 2.82%, English 4.84%, Spanish 5.05%, Bengali 2.68%, Portuguese 2.77%, Russian 2.27%, Japanese 1.99%, German, Standard 1.49%, Chinese, Wu 1.21% (2004)
note: Percents are for "first language" speakers only
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77% (2005)
note: Over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate
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