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== World demographic profile (2017) ==

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!   !! 2017
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| '''World Population''' || 7,405,107,650 (July 2017)
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| '''10 Most Populated Countries''' (In Millions) || '''China:''' 1379.3

'''India:''' 1281.93

'''United States:''' 326.6

'''Indonesia:''' 260.58

'''Brazil:''' 207.35

'''Pakistan:''' 204.92

'''Nigeria:''' 190.63

'''Bangladesh:''' 157.83

'''Russia:''' 142.26

'''Japan:''' 126.45
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| '''Age Structure''' || '''0–14 years:''' 25.44% (male 963,981,944/female 898,974,458)

'''15–24 years:''' 16.16% (male 611,311,930/female 572,229,547)

'''25–54 years:''' 41.12% (male 1,522,999,578/female 1,488,011,505)

'''55–64 years:''' 8.6% (male 307,262,939/female 322,668,546)

'''65 years and over:''' 8.68% (male 283,540,918/female 352,206,092)
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| '''Dependency Ratio''' || '''total dependency ratio:''' 52.5

'''youth dependency ratio:''' 39.9

'''elderly dependency ratio:''' 12.6

'''potential support ratio:''' 7.9
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| ''' Median age''' || '''total:''' 30.4 years

'''male:''' 29.6 years

'''female:''' 31.1 years
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| '''Birth rate''' ||  4.3 births every second
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| '''Death rate''' || 1.8 deaths every second
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| '''Maternal mortality''' || 216 deaths/100,000 live births
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| '''[[human sex ratio|Sex ratio]]''' || '''at birth:''' 1.03 male(s)/female

'''0–14 years:''' 1.07 male(s)/female

'''15–24 years:''' 1.07 male(s)/female

'''25–54 years:''' 1.02 male(s)/female

'''55–64 years:''' 0.95 male(s)/female

'''65 years and over:''' 0.81 male(s)/female

'''total population:''' 1.02 male(s)/female
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| '''Life Expectancy''' || '''total population:''' 69 years

'''male:''' 67 years

'''female:''' 71.1 years
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| '''Total Fertility Rate''' || 2.42 children born/woman
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| '''Languages'''|| '''Mandarin Chinese:''' 12.2%

'''Spanish:''' 5.8%

'''English:''' 4.6%

'''Arabic:''' 3.6%

'''Hindi:''' 3.6%

'''Portuguese:''' 2.8%

'''Bengali:''' 2.6%

'''Russian:''' 2.3%

'''Japanese:''' 1.7%
* Percentages for "first language" speakers only; the six UN languages – Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, and Spanish which are mother tongues for approximately half of the world's population. They are also the official languages in over half the countries in the world with more than a million first-language speakers.
* There are an estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world and about 80% of the languages are spoken by >100,000 people and approximately 130 of those languages are spoken by >10 people.
* There is an estimated amount of 2,300 languages spoken in Asia, 2,140 in Africa, 1,310 in the Pacific, 1,060 in the Americas, and 290 in Europe.
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| '''Religions''' || '''Christian:''' 31.4%

''' Muslim:''' 23.2%

'''Hindu:''' 15%

'''Buddhist:''' 7.1%

'''folk religions:''' 5.9%

'''Jewish:''' 0.2%

'''other:''' 0.8%

'''unaffiliated:''' 16.4%
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Source: CIA World Factbook<ref name="cia.gov">{{Cite web | url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601020457/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 1, 2007 | title=The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency}}</ref>