Have you ever wondered how the population landscape of our planet looks in 2025? This dataset brings together the latest population statistics for 233 countries and territories, carefully collected from Worldometers.info — one of the most trusted global data sources.

📊 It reveals how countries are growing, shrinking, and evolving demographically. From population density to fertility rate, from migration trends to urbanization, every number tells a story about humanity’s future.

🌆 You can explore which nations are rapidly expanding, which are aging, and how urban populations are transforming global living patterns. This dataset includes key metrics like yearly population change, net migration, land area, fertility rate, and each country’s share of the world population.

🧠 Ideal for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning, it can be used to study global trends, forecast population growth, or build engaging dashboards in Python, R, or Tableau. It’s also perfect for students and researchers exploring geography, demographics, or development studies.

📈 Whether you’re analyzing Asia’s population boom, Europe’s aging curve, or Africa’s youthful surge — this dataset gives you a complete view of the world’s demographic balance in 2025. 🌎 With 233 rows and 12 insightful columns, it’s ready for your next EDA, visualization, or predictive modeling project.

🚀 Dive in, explore the data, and uncover what the world looks like — one country at a time.

Description

This Dataset contains details of World Population by country. According to the worldometer, the current population of the world is 8.2 billion people. Highest populated country is India followed by China and USA.

Attribute Information

• Rank : Country Rank by Population.
• Country : Name of the Country.
• Population(2024) : Current Population of each Country.
• Yearly Change : Percentage Yearly Change in Population.
• Net Change : Net change in the Population.
• Density (P/Km²) : Population density (population per square km)
• Land Area(Km²) : Total land area of the Country.
• Migrants (net) : Total number of migrants.
• Fertility Rate : Fertility rate
• Median Age : Median age of the population
• Urban Pop % : Percentage of urban population
• World Share : Share to the word with population.

Acknowledgements

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

This dataset was obtained through web scraping from Worldometer, a website that provides real-time global statistics. The data was collected in September 2025.

Column Description

• Population: The total number of inhabitants of a country in a given year.
• Yearly Change (%): The percentage growth in population per year compared to the previous year.
• Net Change: The difference in the number of inhabitants added each year (in numbers, not percentages).
• Density (P/Km²): Population density, calculated as the number of people per square kilometer (people per km²).
• Land Area (Km²): The land area of a country in square kilometers (excluding water areas).
• Migrants (net): Net migration figures (immigrants minus emigrants). Positive → more people entering, Negative → more people leaving.
• Fertility Rate: The average number of children born to a woman throughout her lifetime.
• Median Age: The middle age of the population (half are younger than this number, half are older).
• Urban Population (%): The percentage of the population living in urban areas.
• World Share (%): The percentage of a country's population compared to the total world population.

This dataset presents projected demographic data for countries and territories in 2025. It includes:

Estimated Population (2025)

Yearly Change Rate and Net Change

Population Density and Land Area

Net Migration, Fertility Rate, and Median Age

Urban Population % and Global Share

The data is sourced from Worldometer and offers insights into global population trends for planning, research, and analysis.

Dataset Overview

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Recommended citation

Gütschow, J.; Busch, D.; Pflüger, M. (2025): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series v2.7 (1750-2024). zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17090760.

Gütschow, J.; Jeffery, L.; Gieseke, R.; Gebel, R.; Stevens, D.; Krapp, M.; Rocha, M. (2016): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 571-603, doi:10.5194/essd-8-571-2016

Content

• Use of the dataset and full description
• Abstract
• Support
• Sources
• Files included in the dataset
• Notes
• Data format description (columns)
• References
• Changelog

Abstract

The PRIMAP-hist dataset combines several published datasets to create a comprehensive set of greenhouse gas emission pathways for every country and Kyoto gas, covering the years 1750 to 2024, and almost all UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) member states as well as most non-UNFCCC territories. The data resolves the main IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 2006 categories. For CO2, CH4, and N2O subsector data for Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU), and Agriculture are available. The "country reported data priority" (CR) scenario of the PRIMAP-hist datset prioritizes data that individual countries report to the UNFCCC.

For developed countries, AnnexI in terms of the UNFCCC, this is the data submitted anually in the "National Inventory Submissions". Until 2023 data was submitted in the "Common Reporting Format" (CRF). Since 2024 the new "Common Reporting Tables" (CRT) are used.For developing countries, non-AnnexI in terms of the UNFCCC our preferred data source are the Common Reporting Tables (CRT) submitted with the Biannial Transparency Reports (BTR). When countries do not provide the tables we read available data from the pdf reports and use additional submissions (Biannial Update Reports (BUR), National Communications (NC), and National Inventory Reports (NIR)) read from pdf and xlsx/csv files and for older submissions obtained from the UNFCCC DI portal (di.unfccc.int). For a list of these submissions please see below. For South Korea the 2024 official GHG inventory has not yet been submitted to the UN but is included in PRIMAP-hist. PRIMAP-hist also includes official data for Taiwan which is not recognized as a party to the UNFCCC. As the USA have not submitted any data to the UNFCCC this year we use the draft inventory report which the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) obtained from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Freedom of Information Act.

Gaps in the country reported data are filled using third party data such as CDIAC, EI (fossil CO2), Andrew cement emissions data (cement), FAOSTAT (agriculture), and EDGAR 2024 (all sectors for CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6, NF3, except energy CO2). Lower priority data are harmonized to higher priority data in the gap-filling process.

For the third party priority time series gaps in the third party data are filled from country reported data sources.

Data for earlier years which are not available in the above mentioned sources are sourced from EDGAR-HYDE, CEDS, and RCP (N2O only) historical emissions.

The v2.4 release of PRIMAP-hist reduced the time-lag from 2 to 1 years for the October release. Thus the present version 2.7 includes data for 2024. For energy CO2 growth rates from the Energy Institute's *Statistical Review of World Energy* are used to extend the country reported data to 2024. For CO2 from cement production Andrew cement data are used for a few countries. For all other sectors and gases no emission estimates exist. Thus PRIMAP-hist relies on numerical methods and uses a linear extrapolation based on the last 5 years. COVID-19 has primarily impacted energy related emissions and in tests with CRF data no impact of COVID in the performance of linear extrapolation of emissions data in the other sectors has been detected. For the few cases where extrapolation is needed for energy CO2 we use a 15 year trend for the extrapolation.

Version 2.7 of the PRIMAP-hist dataset does not include emissions from Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) in the main file. LULUCF data are included in the file with increased number of significant digits and have to be used with care as they are constructed from different sources using different methodologies and are not harmonized.

The PRIMAP-hist v2.7 dataset is an updated version of

Gütschow, J.; Pflüger, M.; Busch, D. (2025): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series v2.6.1 (1750-2023). zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15016289.

The Changelog indicates the most important changes. You can also check the issue tracker on github.com/JGuetschow/PRIMAP-hist for additional information on issues found after the release of the dataset. Detailed per country information is available from the detailed changelog which is available on the primap.org website and on zenodo.

Use of the dataset and full description

Before using the dataset, please read this document and the article describing the methodology, especially the section on uncertainties and the section on limitations of the method and use of the dataset.

Gütschow, J.; Jeffery, L.; Gieseke, R.; Gebel, R.; Stevens, D.; Krapp, M.; Rocha, M. (2016): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 571-603, doi:10.5194/essd-8-571-2016

Please notify us (support@johannes-guetschow@.de) if you use the dataset so that we can keep track of how it is used and take that into consideration when updating and improving the dataset.

When using this dataset or one of its updates, please cite the DOI of the precise version of the dataset used and also the data description article which this dataset is supplement to (see above). Please consider also citing the relevant original sources when using the PRIMAP-hist dataset. See the full citations in the References section further below.

Since version 2.3 we use the data formats developed for the PRIMAP2 climate policy analysis suite: PRIMAP2 on GitHub. The data are published both in the interchange format which consists of a csv file with the data and a yaml file with additional metadata and the native NetCDF based format. For a detailed description of the data format we refer to the PRIMAP2 documentation.

We have also included files with more than three significant digits. These files are mainly aimed at people doing policy analysis using the country reported data scenario (HISTCR). Using the high precision data they can avoid questions on discrepancies with the reported data. The uncertainties of emissions data do not justify the additional significant digits and they might give a false sense of accuracy, so please use this version of the dataset with extra care.

Support

If you encounter possible errors or other things that should be noted, please check our issue tracker at github.com/JGuetschow/PRIMAP-hist and report your findings there. Please use the tag "v2.7" in any issue you create regarding this dataset.

If you need support in using the dataset or have any other questions regarding the dataset, please contact nc-support@johannes-guetschow.de.

Basic support is free for non-commercial users and most questions can be answered with a short e-mail. However, we do not have the resources to provide extensive support free of charge. For commercial users support will be included with the commercial license (see below).

License

Since v2.7 PRIMAP-hist is published under a non-commercial license (CC BY-NC-SA). This means that commercial users can not use it freely and have to obtain a commercial license. The commercial license is only available for the country reported priority (CR) time-series as the third party priority (TP) time-series builds heavily on EDGAR and FAOSTAT data. For commercial customers wanting to use the TP time-series we offer to develop custom code to generate the data locally. Please contact commercial-support@johannes-guetschow.de for more information.

Sources

• Global CO2 emissions from cement production v250226 data, paper: Andrew
  (2025), Andrew (2019)
• EI Statistical Review of World Energy 2025 website: Energy Institute (2025)
• CDIAC data: Hefner and Marland (2023), data: Hefner (2024), paper: Gilfillan and Marland (2021)
• CEDS: data: Hoesly et al. (2020), paper: Hoesly et al. (2018)
• EDGAR 2024: <a

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