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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	1,287,921	33.4	8.3	62.6	48.9	4.40	24.8	45,682
ASIA	4,545,133	16.3	7.1	73.0	26.0	2.14	8.8	379,874
EUROPE	742,648	10.4	11.2	78.2	4.3	1.63	0.7	137,967
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN	652,012	16.3	6.0	75.8	15.8	2.03	9.8	54,174
NORTHERN AMERICA	363,844	12.4	8.3	80.0	5.0	1.85	7.3	58,065
OCEANIA	41,261	16.4	6.7	78.9	18.8	2.33	13.8	5,176
WORLD	7,632,819	18.5	7.7	72.1	30.4	2.47	10.8	680,937

Source : Estimates for the current year based on data from the World Population Prospects. United Nations. 2017
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.