The world’s populations

Germany and its minorities, or surprises of the census of 2011

On 31 May 2013, Destatis, Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, announced the first findings of the census conducted two years earlier

How are migration and the environment connected?

In recent decades, the increase in the number of natural disasters and their media impact have led to a growing awareness of the connections between migration and the environment.

Germany twenty years later

In 1989 Germany was divided into two parts of different sizes: 64 million people lived in the western side and 16 million in the eastern side.

Imagining tomorrow’s population

You can use the population simulator to see the future population trends of the whole world or of individual countries as forecast by the United Nations projections. You can also make your own simulations by adjusting fertility, life expectancy and the sex ratio at birth. Play with l’institut national d’études démographiques.

Population, births, deaths

Population by sex and age on January 1st

Projections