Data dashboard

Vital Signs · latest published UN & World Bank figures

Rates over time

Population-weighted global crude birth rate, crude death rate and life expectancy, 19902024.

Births / 1,000Deaths / 1,000Life expectancy (right)
015301990200720247563

Modeled events per year

Annual births and deaths implied by those rates.

Modeled births / yrModeled deaths / yr
0M80M161M199020072024

Twelve-month forecast

Projected modeled pulses per month, holding today's national rates constant and applying the same seasonal shape as the live ticks.

BirthsDeaths
0.0M5.9M11.9MSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Month
Sep 2026
Projected births
11,508,726
Projected deaths
4,952,360
Next 12 months · births
134.1M
Next 12 months · deaths
61.7M
Projected net change
+72.4M

A projection, not a prediction: rates are frozen at their latest published values, so this shows what the current rates imply, month by month, if nothing changes.

Latest country figures

Rank by
CountryPopulationBirths / 1,000Deaths / 1,000Life expectancyPeople / km²Year
India1,463,865,52516.06.672.24922024
China1,406,585,0006.87.878.01502024
United States341,784,85710.69.078.9372024
Indonesia285,721,23615.87.671.31512024
Pakistan255,219,55427.46.567.83312024
Nigeria237,527,78232.511.654.62612024
Brazil212,812,40512.17.176.0252024
Bangladesh175,686,89920.05.174.913522024
Russian Federation143,513,3288.412.473.48.82024
Ethiopia135,472,05131.55.967.61202024
Mexico131,946,90015.56.275.3682024
Japan123,366,7345.713.384.03382024
Egypt, Arab Rep.118,365,99520.95.571.81192024
Philippines116,786,96215.96.370.03922024
Congo, Dem. Rep.112,832,47340.98.462.1502024

Top 15 of 215 countries. Every figure is the latest published observation, not a live measurement.