World Population Prospects The 2006 Revision

The 2006 Revision of World Population Prospects represents the latest global demographic estimates and projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. This volume of the 2006 Revision shows the age and sex distribution of populations of these official United Nations world population estimates and projections. Covering the 1950-2050 time period, age and sex distributions are provided for the world, each development group, the major areas and regions of the world and for each country with more than 100,000 inhabitants in 2007. In all data tables, figures for 1950-2007 are estimates and those thereafter are projections. The projections are presented as medium, high and low-fertility variants. The tables are accompanied by an executive summary of the results and the assumptions underlying the 2006 Revision. The executive summary and the assumptions have been translated into the six official United Nations languages. The full results of the 2006 Revision are presented in a series of three volumes. In addition to the present volume, the first volume’ provides the comprehensive tables displaying demographic profiles and major demographic indicators for each development group, major area, region and country for 1950-2050. The third volume2 is devoted to an analysis of the results. Summary findings of the 2006 Revision are also shown in a wall chart3