Population Projections by Country to 2100

By Marko Visic · Updated October 25, 2026

The UN projects the world population to grow from 8.30 billion in 2026 to 9.66 billion in 2050, peaking at 10.29 billion in 2084. Pick a country and a year below to see its projection.

Data: UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant.

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Projection year: 2050

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UN projection

World

In 2050, World is projected to have 9.66B people — +1.36B (+16.4%) vs 8.30B today.

🚀 Peak coming

The UN projects the world's population to peak at 10.29B in 2084 — about 58 years from now — then decline.

today (2026)

8.30B

people

2050

9.66B

+16.4%

2100

10.18B

+22.7%

peak

2084

10.29B

When you turn 65 in 2055, the world's population is projected to be 9.85B (+18.6% vs 2026).
When you turn 80 in 2070: 10.19B (+22.8% vs 2026).

ⓘ Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant (population.un.org/wpp). UN also publishes low- and high-variant projections that diverge substantially after 2050 — the medium variant is the central published estimate.

Population trajectory, 1950 to 2100

World

World estimates projection today (2026) chosen year projected peak

Solid blue line: UN estimates, 1950 to 2023 (history). Dashed line: medium-variant projection to 2100. Green marker is 2026 (today); purple marker tracks the slider year; red marker (if shown) is the projected peak.

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World population trajectory to 2100

UN WPP 2024 medium variant

2026

8.30B

2050

9.66B

+16.4%

2100

10.18B

+22.7%

Peak (2084)

10.29B

The world population is projected to grow from 8.30 billion in 2026 to 9.66 billion in 2050, peaking at 10.29 billion in 2084 before slowly declining.

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024 — annual world population, medium variant.

When does each country peak?

UN WPP 2024 medium variant · 194 countries

Peaked before 2026

China (2021)
Russia (1991)
Japan (2009)

Peaks 2026 to 2050

Brazil (2042)
Vietnam (2049)
Turkey (2047)

Peaks 2051 to 2099

India (2061)
Indonesia (2058)
Bangladesh (2071)

Still growing in 2100

United States (2100)
Pakistan (2100)
Nigeria (2100)

Source: computed from UN WPP 2024 per-country annual population projections (medium variant). A country is "past peak" if its population stopped rising before 2026, and "still growing in 2100" if its 2100 population is its highest and above its level a decade earlier.

Fastest-growing and fastest-shrinking countries by 2050

UN WPP 2024 · % change 2026 to 2050

The fastest-growing countries are led by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (+87.3% by 2050); the fastest-shrinking by Bosnia and Herzegovina (−19.4%). Both lists are limited to countries with at least 1 million people in 2026, so the ranking reflects countries with real demographic weight.

Source: computed from UN WPP 2024 medium-variant projections, 2026 to 2050.

How UN projections work

Low variant

A lower-fertility scenario. By 2100 it gives a world population of about 6.99 billion.

Medium variant (shown here)

The UN's central projection, used on this page. It gives 10.18 billion in 2100.

High variant

A higher-fertility scenario. By 2100 it gives about 14.40 billion.

The low and high variants are lower- and higher-fertility scenarios, not probabilities. For a probability range, the UN publishes prediction intervals: the 95% interval for 2100 is 9.05 to 11.44 billion, and for 2050 it is 9.42 to 9.90 billion.

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024 — medium, low and high variants plus the 80% and 95% prediction intervals, from the same UN release.

All 194 countries projected to 2050 and 2100

Ranked by 2026 population · UN WPP 2024

#	Country	2026	2050	Change, 2026 to 2050	2100	Change, 2026 to 2100	Peak year
1	India	1476.6M	1679.6M	+13.5%	1505.3M	+2.0%	2061
2	China	1412.9M	1260.3M	−10.6%	633.4M	−55.1%	2021
3	United States	349.0M	380.8M	+9.1%	421.3M	+20.7%	2100
4	Indonesia	287.9M	320.7M	+11.4%	295.5M	+2.6%	2058
5	Pakistan	259.3M	371.9M	+43.4%	511.0M	+97.1%	2100
6	Nigeria	242.4M	359.2M	+48.2%	476.7M	+96.7%	2100
7	Brazil	213.6M	217.5M	+1.8%	163.4M	−23.5%	2042
8	Bangladesh	177.8M	214.7M	+20.8%	208.6M	+17.3%	2071
9	Russia	143.4M	136.1M	−5.1%	126.4M	−11.9%	1991
10	Ethiopia	138.9M	225.0M	+62.0%	367.3M	+164.4%	2100
11	Mexico	133.0M	148.9M	+12.0%	130.2M	−2.1%	2058
12	Japan	122.4M	105.1M	−14.1%	76.8M	−37.3%	2009
13	Egypt	120.1M	161.6M	+34.6%	201.9M	+68.1%	2100
14	Philippines	117.7M	134.4M	+14.2%	114.2M	−3.0%	2057
15	Democratic Republic of the Congo	116.5M	218.2M	+87.3%	430.7M	+269.7%	2100
16	Vietnam	102.2M	110.0M	+7.6%	91.7M	−10.3%	2049
17	Iran	93.2M	101.9M	+9.3%	80.0M	−14.2%	2053
18	Turkey	87.9M	91.3M	+3.9%	65.3M	−25.7%	2047
19	Germany	83.6M	78.3M	−6.3%	70.9M	−15.2%	2024
20	Tanzania	72.6M	129.6M	+78.5%	262.8M	+262.0%	2100
21	Thailand	71.6M	66.4M	−7.3%	45.6M	−36.3%	2022
22	United Kingdom	69.9M	75.5M	+8.0%	74.3M	+6.3%	2072
23	France	66.7M	68.2M	+2.2%	68.5M	+2.7%	2095
24	South Africa	65.5M	79.2M	+20.9%	94.3M	+44.0%	2100
25	Italy	58.9M	51.9M	−11.9%	35.4M	−39.9%	2014
26	Kenya	58.6M	83.6M	+42.7%	104.2M	+77.8%	2098
27	Myanmar	55.2M	58.6M	+6.2%	49.7M	−10.0%	2049
28	Colombia	53.9M	59.4M	+10.2%	47.1M	−12.6%	2050
29	Sudan	53.3M	85.2M	+59.8%	136.9M	+156.8%	2100
30	Uganda	52.8M	85.4M	+61.7%	120.8M	+128.8%	2100
31	South Korea	51.6M	45.1M	−12.6%	21.8M	−57.8%	2020
32	Algeria	48.0M	59.6M	+24.2%	64.5M	+34.4%	2090
33	Iraq	48.0M	71.9M	+49.8%	100.6M	+109.6%	2100
34	Spain	47.9M	44.9M	−6.3%	33.1M	−30.9%	2023
35	Argentina	46.0M	48.3M	+5.0%	38.3M	−16.7%	2050
36	Afghanistan	45.0M	76.9M	+70.9%	130.2M	+189.3%	2100
37	Yemen	43.0M	71.0M	+65.1%	110.0M	+155.8%	2100
38	Canada	40.5M	45.6M	+12.6%	53.6M	+32.3%	2100
39	Angola	40.2M	74.3M	+84.8%	150.0M	+273.1%	2100
40	Ukraine	39.5M	32.0M	−19.0%	15.2M	−61.5%	1993
41	Morocco	38.8M	43.4M	+11.9%	37.9M	−2.3%	2058
42	Poland	37.8M	32.8M	−13.2%	19.3M	−48.9%	2023
43	Uzbekistan	37.7M	52.2M	+38.5%	74.3M	+97.3%	2100
44	Mozambique	36.6M	63.5M	+73.5%	104.3M	+185.0%	2100
45	Malaysia	36.4M	44.3M	+21.7%	44.0M	+20.9%	2072
46	Ghana	35.7M	50.6M	+41.7%	67.5M	+89.1%	2100
47	Saudi Arabia	35.2M	47.7M	+35.5%	71.0M	+101.7%	2100
48	Peru	34.9M	40.6M	+16.3%	38.2M	+9.5%	2066
49	Madagascar	33.5M	53.2M	+58.8%	85.3M	+154.6%	2100
50	Côte d'Ivoire	33.5M	55.7M	+66.3%	104.0M	+210.4%	2100
51	Cameroon	30.6M	51.1M	+67.0%	88.9M	+190.5%	2100
52	Nepal	29.6M	34.6M	+16.9%	31.8M	+7.4%	2067
53	Niger	28.8M	52.5M	+82.3%	90.8M	+215.3%	2100
54	Venezuela	28.6M	31.1M	+8.7%	28.3M	−1.0%	2057
55	Australia	27.2M	32.5M	+19.5%	43.1M	+58.5%	2100
56	North Korea	26.6M	25.8M	−3.0%	19.5M	−26.7%	2032
57	Syria	26.5M	37.8M	+42.6%	43.7M	+64.9%	2086
58	Mali	25.9M	46.2M	+78.4%	79.4M	+206.6%	2100
59	Burkina Faso	24.6M	37.3M	+51.6%	49.9M	+102.8%	2100
60	Sri Lanka	23.3M	24.8M	+6.4%	21.2M	−9.0%	2051
61	Malawi	22.8M	37.4M	+64.0%	59.1M	+159.2%	2100
62	Zambia	22.5M	38.1M	+69.3%	64.5M	+186.7%	2100
63	Chad	21.6M	38.9M	+80.1%	69.5M	+221.8%	2100
64	Kazakhstan	21.1M	26.5M	+25.6%	33.7M	+59.7%	2100
65	Somalia	20.3M	37.2M	+83.3%	67.4M	+232.0%	2100
66	Chile	19.9M	20.3M	+2.0%	13.4M	−32.7%	2041
67	Senegal	19.4M	30.4M	+56.7%	47.0M	+142.3%	2100
68	Guatemala	19.0M	24.7M	+30.0%	25.9M	+36.3%	2077
69	Romania	18.8M	16.0M	−14.9%	10.8M	−42.6%	1991
70	Netherlands	18.4M	19.0M	+3.3%	17.5M	−4.9%	2041
71	Ecuador	18.4M	21.3M	+15.8%	19.1M	+3.8%	2063
72	Cambodia	18.1M	21.9M	+21.0%	22.7M	+25.4%	2078
73	Zimbabwe	17.3M	25.9M	+49.7%	37.2M	+115.0%	2100
74	Guinea	15.4M	23.4M	+51.9%	32.0M	+107.8%	2100
75	Benin	15.2M	24.4M	+60.5%	39.6M	+160.5%	2100
76	Rwanda	14.9M	22.7M	+52.3%	32.8M	+120.1%	2100
77	Burundi	14.7M	24.1M	+63.9%	37.9M	+157.8%	2100
78	Bolivia	12.7M	16.1M	+26.8%	17.8M	+40.2%	2086
79	South Sudan	12.4M	18.3M	+47.6%	23.8M	+91.9%	2100
80	Tunisia	12.4M	13.1M	+5.6%	10.7M	−13.7%	2051
81	Haiti	12.0M	14.7M	+22.5%	15.2M	+26.7%	2076
82	Belgium	11.8M	11.9M	+0.8%	11.1M	−5.9%	2044
83	Dominican Republic	11.6M	13.0M	+12.1%	11.7M	+0.9%	2061
84	Jordan	11.6M	16.4M	+41.4%	21.3M	+83.6%	2100
85	United Arab Emirates	11.6M	15.4M	+32.8%	26.1M	+125.0%	2100
86	Honduras	11.2M	14.8M	+32.1%	17.0M	+51.8%	2090
87	Tajikistan	11.0M	15.6M	+41.8%	20.2M	+83.6%	2100
88	Papua New Guinea	10.9M	14.9M	+36.7%	18.6M	+70.6%	2100
89	Cuba	10.9M	9.4M	−13.8%	5.6M	−48.6%	2012
90	Sweden	10.7M	11.3M	+5.6%	11.4M	+6.5%	2079
91	Czech Republic	10.5M	9.8M	−6.7%	8.2M	−21.9%	2023
92	Azerbaijan	10.5M	11.2M	+6.7%	10.0M	−4.8%	2050
93	Portugal	10.4M	9.8M	−5.8%	8.8M	−15.4%	2010
94	Togo	9.9M	15.6M	+57.6%	26.3M	+165.7%	2100
95	Greece	9.9M	8.8M	−11.1%	6.3M	−36.4%	2010
96	Israel	9.6M	13.1M	+36.5%	19.7M	+105.2%	2100
97	Hungary	9.6M	8.7M	−9.4%	7.5M	−21.9%	1980
98	Austria	9.1M	8.7M	−4.4%	7.4M	−18.7%	2023
99	Switzerland	9.0M	9.3M	+3.3%	9.1M	+1.1%	2051
100	Sierra Leone	9.0M	12.9M	+43.3%	15.9M	+76.7%	2092
101	Belarus	8.9M	7.5M	−15.7%	4.4M	−50.6%	1993
102	Laos	8.0M	9.8M	+22.5%	9.3M	+16.3%	2068
103	Turkmenistan	7.7M	9.6M	+24.7%	9.9M	+28.6%	2079
104	Libya	7.5M	9.3M	+24.0%	9.8M	+30.7%	2086
105	Kyrgyzstan	7.4M	9.6M	+29.7%	11.7M	+58.1%	2100
106	Nicaragua	7.1M	8.8M	+23.9%	8.6M	+21.1%	2071
107	Paraguay	7.1M	8.6M	+21.1%	9.0M	+26.8%	2078
108	Bulgaria	6.7M	5.4M	−19.4%	3.5M	−47.8%	1988
109	Serbia	6.6M	5.5M	−16.7%	3.7M	−43.9%	1987
110	Congo	6.6M	11.0M	+66.7%	20.0M	+203.0%	2100
111	El Salvador	6.4M	6.7M	+4.7%	5.1M	−20.3%	2047
112	Denmark	6.0M	6.1M	+1.7%	5.9M	−1.7%	2042
113	Singapore	5.9M	6.1M	+3.4%	4.2M	−28.8%	2040
114	Lebanon	5.9M	7.0M	+18.6%	7.2M	+22.0%	2080
115	Liberia	5.9M	8.9M	+50.8%	12.7M	+115.3%	2100
116	Central African Republic	5.7M	10.6M	+86.0%	18.8M	+229.8%	2100
117	Palestine	5.7M	8.5M	+49.1%	11.5M	+101.8%	2100
118	Oman	5.7M	7.8M	+36.8%	12.1M	+112.3%	2100
119	Norway	5.7M	5.9M	+3.5%	5.4M	−5.3%	2050
120	Finland	5.6M	5.4M	−3.6%	4.6M	−17.9%	2025
121	Mauritania	5.5M	9.4M	+70.9%	17.1M	+210.9%	2100
122	Slovakia	5.5M	4.9M	−10.9%	3.4M	−38.2%	2023
123	Ireland	5.4M	6.0M	+11.1%	5.3M	−1.9%	2053
124	New Zealand	5.3M	5.8M	+9.4%	5.8M	+9.4%	2078
125	Costa Rica	5.2M	5.4M	+3.8%	3.8M	−26.9%	2044
126	Kuwait	5.1M	6.4M	+25.5%	9.6M	+88.2%	2100
127	Panama	4.6M	5.6M	+21.7%	5.9M	+28.3%	2080
128	Croatia	3.8M	3.2M	−15.8%	2.1M	−44.7%	1990
129	Georgia	3.8M	3.7M	−2.6%	3.0M	−21.1%	1988
130	Eritrea	3.7M	5.7M	+54.1%	8.4M	+127.0%	2100
131	Mongolia	3.6M	4.5M	+25.0%	5.5M	+52.8%	2100
132	Uruguay	3.4M	3.3M	−2.9%	2.2M	−35.3%	2020
133	Qatar	3.2M	4.2M	+31.3%	7.3M	+128.1%	2100
134	Namibia	3.2M	4.5M	+40.6%	5.9M	+84.4%	2100
135	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.1M	2.5M	−19.4%	1.4M	−54.8%	1991
136	Moldova	3.0M	2.4M	−20.0%	1.5M	−50.0%	1991
137	Armenia	2.9M	2.5M	−13.8%	1.7M	−41.4%	1991
138	Gambia	2.9M	4.3M	+48.3%	5.7M	+96.6%	2100
139	Jamaica	2.8M	2.5M	−10.7%	1.1M	−60.7%	2023
140	Lithuania	2.8M	2.3M	−17.9%	1.2M	−57.1%	1991
141	Albania	2.8M	2.2M	−21.4%	1.2M	−57.1%	1991
142	Gabon	2.6M	4.1M	+57.7%	6.9M	+165.4%	2100
143	Botswana	2.6M	3.4M	+30.8%	3.8M	+46.2%	2088
144	Lesotho	2.4M	3.0M	+25.0%	3.3M	+37.5%	2083
145	Guinea-Bissau	2.3M	3.4M	+47.8%	4.7M	+104.3%	2100
146	Slovenia	2.1M	2.0M	−4.8%	1.6M	−23.8%	2024
147	Equatorial Guinea	2.0M	3.1M	+55.0%	5.0M	+150.0%	2100
148	Latvia	1.8M	1.5M	−16.7%	925,000	−48.6%	1989
149	North Macedonia	1.8M	1.5M	−16.7%	863,000	−52.1%	2005
150	Bahrain	1.7M	2.1M	+23.5%	3.1M	+82.4%	2100
151	Trinidad and Tobago	1.5M	1.4M	−6.7%	898,000	−40.1%	2028
152	Timor-Leste	1.4M	1.9M	+35.7%	2.0M	+42.9%	2076
153	Cyprus	1.4M	1.5M	+7.1%	1.3M	−7.1%	2052
154	Estonia	1.3M	1.2M	−7.7%	826,000	−36.5%	1990
155	Eswatini	1.3M	1.5M	+15.4%	1.3M	±0.0%	2063
156	Mauritius	1.3M	1.1M	−15.4%	582,000	−55.2%	2015
157	Djibouti	1.2M	1.5M	+25.0%	1.8M	+50.0%	2100
158	Fiji	937,000	1.0M	+6.7%	879,000	−6.2%	2054
159	Comoros	899,000	1.3M	+44.6%	1.9M	+111.3%	2100
160	Solomon Islands	858,000	1.3M	+51.5%	1.8M	+109.8%	2100
161	Guyana	841,000	941,000	+11.9%	889,000	+5.7%	2067
162	Bhutan	802,000	882,000	+10.0%	690,000	−14.0%	2052
163	Luxembourg	687,000	791,000	+15.1%	748,000	+8.9%	2061
164	Suriname	645,000	734,000	+13.8%	709,000	+9.9%	2071
165	Montenegro	626,000	533,000	−14.9%	326,000	−47.9%	2024
166	Malta	549,000	536,000	−2.4%	360,000	−34.4%	2033
167	Maldives	532,000	590,000	+10.9%	475,000	−10.7%	2057
168	Cabo Verde	530,000	566,000	+6.8%	417,000	−21.3%	2051
169	Brunei	470,000	520,000	+10.6%	465,000	−1.1%	2055
170	Belize	429,000	517,000	+20.5%	447,000	+4.2%	2063
171	Bahamas	405,000	424,000	+4.7%	385,000	−4.9%	2050
172	Iceland	402,000	433,000	+7.7%	363,000	−9.7%	2049
173	Vanuatu	343,000	534,000	+55.7%	875,000	+155.1%	2100
174	Barbados	283,000	264,000	−6.7%	195,000	−31.1%	2028
175	Sao Tome and Principe	245,000	365,000	+49.0%	534,000	+118.0%	2100
176	Samoa	221,000	273,000	+23.5%	384,000	+73.8%	2100
177	Saint Lucia	180,000	172,000	−4.4%	108,000	−40.0%	2032
178	Kiribati	138,000	183,000	+32.6%	223,000	+61.6%	2099
179	Seychelles	135,000	142,000	+5.2%	116,000	−14.1%	2042
180	Grenada	117,000	113,000	−3.4%	74,000	−36.8%	2031
181	Micronesia	114,000	126,000	+10.5%	128,000	+12.3%	2075
182	Tonga	103,000	105,000	+1.9%	118,000	+14.6%	2100
183	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	99,000	89,000	−10.1%	64,000	−35.4%	2000
184	Antigua and Barbuda	95,000	95,000	±0.0%	68,000	−28.4%	2038
185	Andorra	84,000	82,000	−2.4%	47,000	−44.0%	2035
186	Dominica	66,000	63,000	−4.5%	49,000	−25.8%	1980
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	47,000	44,000	−6.4%	30,000	−36.2%	1960
188	Liechtenstein	40,000	43,000	+7.5%	44,000	+10.0%	2100
189	Monaco	38,000	37,000	−2.6%	47,000	+23.7%	2100
190	Marshall Islands	35,000	25,000	−28.6%	24,000	−31.4%	2010
191	San Marino	34,000	34,000	±0.0%	31,000	−8.8%	2020
192	Palau	18,000	16,000	−11.1%	11,000	−38.9%	2004
193	Nauru	12,000	16,000	+33.3%	21,000	+75.0%	2100
194	Tuvalu	9,000	10,000	+11.1%	12,000	+33.3%	2100

Population figures are mid-year (July 1) totals; changes are computed from the values shown. Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant. "Peak year" is the year UN projects each country's population reaches its maximum within 1950 to 2100.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will the world population be in 2050?

9.66 billion, up from 8.30 billion in 2026 (UN medium variant). About two-thirds of the increase (882 million of 1.36 billion) is in Africa; Asia adds 417 million, while Europe and Eastern Asia shrink.

What will the world population be in 2100?

10.18 billion in the UN medium variant. The UN's 95% prediction interval for 2100 is 9.05 to 11.44 billion; its low- and high-fertility variants give 6.99 and 14.40 billion.

When will the world population peak?

In 2084, at 10.29 billion, in the UN medium variant.

Which countries will grow fastest by 2050?

By percentage, among countries with at least 1 million people: DR Congo +87%, Central African Republic +86%, Angola +85%, Somalia +83%, Niger +82% — each growing +82% to +87%. By the number of people added: India +203.0M, Nigeria +116.8M, Pakistan +112.6M, DR Congo +101.8M, Ethiopia +86.1M.

Which countries will shrink fastest by 2050?

By percentage: Bosnia and Herzegovina −19.4%, Moldova −20.0%, Lithuania −17.9%, Ukraine −19.0%, Bulgaria −19.4%. By the number of people lost: China −152.6M, Japan −17.3M, Ukraine −7.5M, Russia −7.3M, Italy −7.0M.

How certain are UN population projections?

The UN publishes probability ranges: the world's 95% prediction interval is 9.42 to 9.90 billion for 2050 and 9.05 to 11.44 billion for 2100.

What's the difference between the low, medium and high variants?

Medium is the UN's central projection, used on this page. Low and high assume lower or higher fertility and give 6.99 and 14.40 billion in 2100. They are scenarios; the 95% prediction interval is the UN's probability range.

Where does this data come from?

UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant, total population on 1 July for 1950 to 2100. Variants and prediction intervals come from the same UN release.

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Sources & Methodology

Primary source: UN World Population Prospects 2024 — annual mid-year (1 July) total population for 194 countries, 1950 to 2100, medium variant.
Variants and intervals: the low and high variants are lower- and higher-fertility scenarios; the 80% and 95% prediction intervals are the UN's probability ranges. Both come from the same UN release.
Rendering: every chart and table on this page is inline SVG or HTML generated server-side from the primary data — no third-party chart libraries.