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WORLD - Estimations 2018

Countries	Total population (thousands)	Birth rate	Mortality rate	Life expectancy	Infant mortality rate	Number of children per woman	Growth rate	Population aged 65 and more (thousands)
AFRICA	1,277,292	33.5	8.8	61.6	51.6	4.39	24.3	45,703
ASIA	4,519,451	16.4	7.1	72.9	26.3	2.14	9.0	375,369
EUROPE	739,495	10.5	11.4	77.9	4.5	1.63	0.3	137,381
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN	653,991	16.3	6.0	75.8	16.4	2.04	9.7	54,320
NORTHERN AMERICA	365,918	12.3	8.4	80.0	5.2	1.86	7.4	58,705
OCEANIA	41,028	16.4	6.8	78.4	18.6	2.34	13.6	5,156
WORLD	7,597,175	18.5	7.8	71.8	31.3	2.47	10.7	676,634

Source : Estimates for the current year based on data from the World Population Prospects. United Nations. 2015
World Population Prospects publishes United Nations population estimates for all world countries and every year from 1950 to 2015, as well as projections for different scenarios (low, middle and high variants) from 2015 to 2100. The figures presented here correspond to middle variant projections for the given year.