In 2022, India overtook China as the world's most populous country and now has almost 1.46 billion people. China now has the second-largest population in the world, still with just over 1.4 billion inhabitants, however, its population went into decline in 2023. Global population As of 2025, the world's population stands at almost 8.2 billion people and is expected to reach around 10.3 billion people in the 2080s, when it will then go into decline. Due to improved healthcare, sanitation, and general living conditions, the global population continues to increase; mortality rates (particularly among infants and children) are decreasing and the median age of the world population has steadily increased for decades. As for the average life expectancy in industrial and developing countries, the gap has narrowed significantly since the mid-20th century. Asia is the most populous continent on Earth; 11 of the 20 largest countries are located there. It leads the ranking of the global population by continent by far, reporting four times as many inhabitants as Africa. The Demographic Transition The population explosion over the past two centuries is part of a phenomenon known as the demographic transition. Simply put, this transition results from a drastic reduction in mortality, which then leads to a reduction in fertility, and increase in life expectancy; this interim period where death rates are low and birth rates are high is where this population explosion occurs, and population growth can remain high as the population ages. In today's most-developed countries, the transition generally began with industrialization in the 1800s, and growth has now stabilized as birth and mortality rates have re-balanced. Across less-developed countries, the stage of this transition varies; for example, China is at a later stage than India, which accounts for the change in which country is more populous - understanding the demographic transition can help understand the reason why China's population is now going into decline. The least-developed region is Sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility rates remain close to pre-industrial levels in some countries. As these countries transition, they will undergo significant rates of population growth

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This dataset contains World Energy Use 1960-2014 Data from World Resources Institute. Follow datasource.kapsarc.org for timely data to advance energy economics research.Socio Economic Data (Population, GDP and Energy Use)CAIT - Historical Emissions Data (Countries, U.S. States, UNFCCC)CAIT Climate Data Explorer. 2015. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. Available online at: http://cait.wri.org

Definition:The crude birth rate is the annual number of live births per 1,000 population.Method of measurementThe crude birth rate is generally computed as a ratio. The numerator is the number of live births observed in a population during a reference period and the denominator is the number of person-years lived by the population during the same period. It is expressed as births per 1,000 population. Method of estimation:Data are taken from the most recent UN Population Division's "World Population Prospects". Other possible data sources:Population censusHousehold surveysPreferred data sources:Civil registration with complete coverageExpected frequency of data dissemination:Biennial (Two years)Data collected March 5, 2021 from: https://www.who.int/data/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-ageing/indicator-explorer-new/mca/crude-birth-rate-(births-per-1000-population)

SP.POP.GROW. Annual population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage . Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

Definition:The crude birth rate is the annual number of live births per 1,000 population.Method of measurementThe crude birth rate is generally computed as a ratio. The numerator is the number of live births observed in a population during a reference period and the denominator is the number of person-years lived by the population during the same period. It is expressed as births per 1,000 population. Method of estimation:Data are taken from the most recent UN Population Division's "World Population Prospects". Other possible data sources:Population censusHousehold surveysPreferred data sources:Civil registration with complete coverageExpected frequency of data dissemination:Biennial (Two years)Data collected March 5, 2021 from: https://www.who.int/data/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-ageing/indicator-explorer-new/mca/crude-birth-rate-(births-per-1000-population)

EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS. Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

Data necessary to run https://github.com/rosapietroiusti/dem4cli/

Data comes from a number of other sources and is collated for ease of running dem4cli.

The data sources are:

1. Wittgenstein Center Data Explorer v2 population cohort size from 1950 to 2100 per country (at snapshots every 5 years) (http://dataexplorer.wittgensteincentre.org/wcde-v2/), available for SSP1, SSP2, SSP3. Cohort size data from WCDE is available at a country level for the period 1950-2100 (reconstructions up to 2015 and projections thereafter) expressed for 5-year age cohorts at 5-year time snapshots.
2. ISIMIP gridded population data reconstructions and projections at 0.5 degrees for SSP1, SSP2 and SSP3 from ISIMIP3a/b (histsoc up to 2021 based on HYDE v3.3 Klein Goldewijk et al.2022), from 2022 SSP projections (based on Gao et al. 2020 https://doi.org/10.5065/D60Z721H and https://doi.org/10.7927/q7z9-9r69), scaled to match ISIMIP national population reconstructions projections under different SSPs (from UNWPP and Samir and Lutz 2017). Projections are based on the national SSP scenarios from Lutz et al. (55) and gridded population projections from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
3. Isipedia fractional country masks at 0.5 degrees are used to match the datasets (Perrette 2023, https://github.com/ISI-MIP/isipedia-countries).
4. Metadata on income levels and regions from World Bank (WB 2023, https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/the-world-by-income-and-region.html)

This dataset provides a global gridded (5 arc-min resolution) detailed annual net-migration dataset for 2000-2019. We also provide global annual birth and death rate datasets – that were used to estimate the net-migration – for same years. The dataset is presented in details, with some further analyses, in the following publication. Please cite this paper when using data.

Niva et al. 2023. World's human migration patterns in 2000-2019 unveiled by high-resolution data. Nature Human Behaviour 7: 2023–2037. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01689-4

You can explore the data in our online net-migration explorer: https://wdrg.aalto.fi/global-net-migration-explorer/

Short introduction to the data

For the dataset, we collected, gap-filled, and harmonised:

a comprehensive national level birth and death rate datasets for altogether 216 countries or sovereign states; and

sub-national data for births (data covering 163 countries, divided altogether into 2555 admin units) and deaths (123 countries, 2067 admin units).

These birth and death rates were downscaled with selected socio-economic indicators to 5 arc-min grid for each year 2000-2019. These allowed us to calculate the 'natural' population change and when this was compared with the reported changes in population, we were able to estimate the annual net-migration. See more about the methods and calculations at Niva et al (2023).

We recommend using the data either over multiple years (we provide 3, 5 and 20 year net-migration sums at gridded level) or then aggregated over larger area (we provide adm0, adm1 and adm2 level geospatial polygon files). This is due to some noise in the gridded annual data.

Due to copy-right issues we are not able to release all the original data collected, but those can be requested from the authors.

List of datasets

Birth and death rates:

raster_birth_rate_2000_2019.tif: Gridded birth rate for 2000-2019 (5 arc-min; multiband tif)

raster_death_rate_2000_2019.tif: Gridded death rate for 2000-2019 (5 arc-min; multiband tif)

tabulated_adm1adm0_birth_rate.csv: Tabulated sub-national birth rate for 2000-2019 at the division to which data was collected (subnational data when available, otherwise national)

tabulated_ adm1adm0_death_rate.csv: Tabulated sub-national death rate for 2000-2019 at the division to which data was collected (subnational data when available, otherwise national)

Net-migration:

raster_netMgr_2000_2019_annual.tif: Gridded annual net-migration 2000-2019 (5 arc-min; multiband tif)

raster_netMgr_2000_2019_3yrSum.tif: Gridded 3-yr sum net-migration 2000-2019 (5 arc-min; multiband tif)

raster_netMgr_2000_2019_5yrSum.tif: Gridded 5-yr sum net-migration 2000-2019 (5 arc-min; multiband tif)

raster_netMgr_2000_2019_20yrSum.tif: Gridded 20-yr sum net-migration 2000-2019 (5 arc-min)

polyg_adm0_dataNetMgr.gpkg: National (adm 0 level) net-migration geospatial file (gpkg)

polyg_adm1_dataNetMgr.gpkg: Provincial (adm 1 level) net-migration geospatial file (gpkg) (if not adm 1 level division, adm 0 used)

polyg_adm2_dataNetMgr.gpkg: Communal (adm 2 level) net-migration geospatial file (gpkg) (if not adm 2 level division, adm 1 used; and if not adm 1 level division either, adm 0 used)

Files to run online net migration explorer

masterData.rds and admGeoms.rds are related to our online ‘Net-migration explorer’ tool (https://wdrg.aalto.fi/global-net-migration-explorer/). The source code of this application is available in https://github.com/vvirkki/net-migration-explorer. Running the application locally requires these two .rds files from this repository.

Metadata

Grids:

Resolution: 5 arc-min (0.083333333 degrees)

Spatial extent: Lon: -180, 180; -90, 90 (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)

Coordinate ref system: EPSG:4326 - WGS 84

Format: Multiband geotiff; each band for each year over 2000-2019

Units:

Birth and death rates: births/deaths per 1000 people per year

Net-migration: persons per 1000 people per time period (year, 3yr, 5yr, 20yr, depending on the dataset)

Geospatial polygon (gpkg) files:

Spatial extent: -180, 180; -90, 83.67 (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)

Temporal extent: annual over 2000-2019

Coordinate ref system: EPSG:4326 - WGS 84

Format: gkpk

Units:

Net-migration: persons per 1000 people per year

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SP.POP.TOTL.MA.IN. Male population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all male residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

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SP.POP.TOTL.FE.IN. Female population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all female residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

SP.POP.TOTL.MA.IN. Male population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all male residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

It is presumed that the first humans migrated from Siberia to North America approximately twelve thousand years ago, where they then moved southwards to warmer lands. It was not until many centuries later that humans returned to the north and began to settle regions that are now part of Canada. Despite a few short-lived Viking settlements on Newfoundland around the turn of the first millennium CE, the Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), became the first European to explore the coast of North America in the late 1400s. The French and British crowns both made claims to areas of Canada throughout the sixteenth century, but real colonization and settlement did not begin until the early seventeenth century. Over the next 150 years, France and Britain competed to take control of the booming fur and fishing trade, and to expand their overseas empires. In the Seven Year's War, Britain eventually defeated the French colonists in North America, through superior numbers and a stronger agriculture resources in the southern colonies, and the outcome of the war saw France cede practically all of it's colonies in North America to the British.

Increased migration and declining native populations

The early 1800s saw a large influx of migrants into Canada, with the Irish Potato Famine bringing the first wave of mass-migration to the country, with further migration coming from Scandinavia and Northern Europe. It is estimated that the region received just shy of one million migrants from the British Isles alone, between 1815 and 1850, which helped the population grow to 2.5 million in the mid-1800s and 5.5 million in 1900. It is also estimated that infectious diseases killed around 25 to 33 percent of all Europeans who migrated to Canada before 1891, and around a third of the Canadian population is estimated to have emigrated southwards to the United States in the 1871-1896 period. From the time of European colonization until the mid-nineteenth century, the native population of Canada dropped from roughly 500,000 (some estimates put it as high as two million) to just over 100,000; this was due to a mixture of disease, starvation and warfare, instigated by European migration to the region. The native population was generally segregated and oppressed until the second half of the 1900s; Native Canadians were given the vote in 1960, and, despite their complicated and difficult history, the Canadian government has made significant progress in trying to include indigenous cultures in the country's national identity in recent years. As of 2020, Indigenous Canadians make up more than five percent of the total Canadian population, and a higher birth rate means that this share of the population is expected to grow in the coming decades.

Independence and modern Canada

Canadian independence was finally acknowledged in 1931 by the Statute of Westminster, putting it on equal terms with the United Kingdom within the Commonwealth; virtually granting independence and sovereignty until the Canada Act of 1982 formalized it. Over the past century, Canada has had a relatively stable political system and economy (although it was hit particularly badly by the Wall Street Crash of 1929). Canada entered the First World War with Britain, and as an independent Allied Power in the Second World War; Canadian forces played pivotal roles in a number of campaigns, notably Canada's Hundred Days in WWI, and the country lost more than 100,000 men across both conflicts. The economy boomed in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a stream of socially democratic programs such as universal health care and the Canadian pension plan were introduced, which contributed to a rise in the standard of living. The post war period also saw various territories deciding to join Canada, with Newfoundland joining in 1949, and Nunavut in 1999. Today Canada is among the most highly ranked in countries in terms of civil liberties, quality of life and economic growth. It promotes and welcomes immigrants from all over the world and, as a result, it has one of the most ethnically diverse and multicultural populations of any country in the world. As of 2020, Canada's population stands at around 38 million people, and continues to grow due to high migration levels and life expectancy, and a steady birth rate.

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SP.POP.TOTL. Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS. Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

IT.NET.USER.ZS. Internet users are individuals who have used the Internet (from any location) in the last 3 months. The Internet can be used via a computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant, games machine, digital TV etc. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

SP.POP.TOTL. Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates. The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.