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General Information

Region		World
Population (000, 2025)		4 835 320^a
Pop. density (per km2, 2025)		154.2^a
Surface area (km2)		31 033 131^b
Sex ratio (m per 100 f)		103.3^a

Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2025
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	27 046 261	32 747 214	38 407 190^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	4.9	-0.8	4.3^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	6 034.0	6 987.0	8 040.0^b
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	100	109	118^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	6 833 753	7 448 887	9 834 599^c
International trade: imports (million current US$)	6 233 938	6 796 439	9 080 678^c
International trade: balance (million current US$)	599 816	652 448	753 921^c

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Population growth rate (average annual %)	1	0.7	0.6^a
Urban population (% of total population)	48	50.5^d	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	2.4^e	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	2.2	2	1.9^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	75.5 / 70.6	76.3 / 71.1	77.6 / 72.5^a
Population age distribution^f (0-14/60+ years old, %)	25.2 / 11.6	24.0 / 13.1	22.2 / 15.0^a
International migrant stock (000/% of total pop.)	78 349.8 / 1.7	84 664.6 / 1.8	92 170.3 / 1.9^c
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	28 420.7	28 625.5	35 632.6^c
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	33.2	27.9	25^a
Intentional homicide rate^g (per 100 000 pop.)	2.4	2	2^b
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	17.8	19.5^h	21.2^h

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Forested area^g (% of land area)	19.8	20	20.1ⁱ
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	17 465.8 / 3.9	18 717.8 / 4.0	20 587.4 / 4.3ⁱ
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	259 995	275 985	306 923ⁱ
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	60	64	69ⁱ
Pop. using safely managed drinking water (urban/rural, %)	77.1 / 61.0	79.2 / 68.5	79.6 / 71.5ⁱ
Pop. using safely managed sanitation (urban/rural, %)	40.1 / 35.3	46.0 / 46.0	46.5 / 49.8ⁱ
Net Official Development Assist. received^j (% of GNI)	0.24	0.25	0.21^b

Footnotes

a		Projected est. (medium fertility variant).
b		2023
c		2024
d		2019
e		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
f		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
g		Estimate.
h		Data at 1 January of the reporting year.
i		2022
j		Including regional aid disbursements in addition to the disbursements made to individual countries and areas.