UnitedDepartmentofEconomicandEmbargoed untilNationsSocial Affairs11July202212:01amEDTWorldPopulationProspects2022SummaryofResults UNDESA/POP/2022/NO.3Department of Economic and Social AffairsPopulation DivisionWorldPopulationProspects2022SummaryofResultsUnited NationsNew York, 2022 United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population DivisionThe Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat is a vital interfacebetween global policies in the cconomic, social and environmental spheres and national action. TheDepartment works in three main interlinked areas: (i) it compiles, generates and analyses a wide range ofcconomic, social and environmental data and information on which States Members of the United NationsMember States in many intergovemmcntal bodics on joint courses of action to address ongoing or emergingglobal challenges; and (iii) it advises interested Governments on the ways and means of translating policyframeworks developed in United Nations conferences and summits into programmes at the country leveland, through technical assistance, helps build national capacities.The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs provides the internationaloutcomes for all countries and areas of the world. To this end, the Division undertakes regular studies ofpopulation size and characteristics and of all three components of population change (fertility, mortalityand migration). Founded in 1946, the Population Division provides substantive support on population anddevelopment issues to the United Nations General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and theCommission on Population and Development. It also leads or participates in various interagencycoordination mechanisms of the United Nations system.The work of the Division also contributes tostrengthening the capacity of Member States to monitor population trends and to address current andemerging population issues.Suggested citationUnited Nations Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). Worid PopulationProspects 2022: Summary of Results. UN DESA/POP/2022/TR/NO. 3.This report is available in electronic format on the Division's website at www.unpopulation.org. For furtherinformation about this report, please contact the Office of the Director, Population Division, Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, 10017, USA, by Fax: 1 212 963 2147 or by emailat population@un.org-Copyright informationFront cover: "Singapore Management University Students Attend Secretary-General Lecture" UNPhoto/Eskinder Debebe-Lecture.Back cover: “School Opens in Weapons Free Zone East of UNMISS" UN Photo/Amanda Voisard.United Nations PublicationSales No.: E.22.XIII.3ISBN: 978-92-1-148373-4eISBN: 9789210014380Copyright C United Nations, 2022.Figures and tables in this publication can be reproduced without prior permission under a CreativeCommons license (CC BY 3.0 IGO), http:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/. AcknowledgmentsThis report was prepared by Victor Gaigbe-Togbe, Lina Bassarsky, Danan Gu, Thomas Spoorenberg andLubov Zeifman, The authors wish to thank John Wilmoth, Bela Hovy and Stephen Kisambira for reviewingthe draft. The World Population Prospects 2022 data were prepared by a team led by Patrick Gerland,including Guiomar Bay, Helena Cruz Castanheira, Giulia Gonnella, Danan Gu, Sara Hertog, YumikoKamiya, Vladimira Kantorova, Pablo Lattes, Kyaw Kyaw Lay, Francois Pelletier, Jose H. C, Monteiro daSilva, Igor Ribeiro, Thomas Spoorenberg, Mark Wheldon, Ivan Williams and Lubov Zeifman, with theassistance of Gabriel Borges, Dennis Butler, Rafaella Carnevali, Fengqing Chao, Jorge Cimentada, SamClark, Camille Dorion, Brian Houle, Peter Johnson, Shelmith Kariuki, Sabu Kunju, Nan Li, Peiran Liu,Jonathan Muir, Marilia Nepomuceno, Marius Pascariu, Adrian Raftery, Mariana Urbina Ramirez, TimRiffe, Bruno Schoumaker, and Hana Sevcikova. The team is grateful to other colleagues in the PopulationDivision for the support they have provided, as well as colleagues from the Latin American and CaribbeanDemographic Centre, Population Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin Americaand the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Demographic Statistics Section of the Statistics Division of the UnitedNations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and the teams of the United Nations Inter-AgencyGroup for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) and the WHO-UN DESA Technical Advisory Group onCOVID Mortality Assessment for their inputs and continuous support.The assistance of Bintou Papoute Ouedraogo and Neena Koshy in editing and desktop publishing isacknowledged. ContentsKeymessagesIntroductionAcenturyofworldpopulationtrends:1950to2050Il.Trends in fertility, mortality and intemational migration.13Il. Long-range population projections to 210027Annex:What's new inthe2022 revision?.35References.39 Notesonregions,developmentgroups,countriesorareasof any opinions whatso