Geographical info
Age: The World is to generally thought of as being
4.55 billion years old.
Area: 196,912,100 square miles
Lowest Point (land): Bentley Subglacial Trench
- 2,540 m
Highest Point: Mount Everest - 8,850 m
People of the World
Population: 6,446, 131, 499 (July 2005)
Age Demographic:
0-14 years: 27.8% (male 919,726,623; female 870,468,158)
15-64 years: 64.9% (male 2,117,230,183; female 2,066,864,970)
65 years and over: 7.3% (male 207,903,775; female 263,627,270)
note: some countries do not maintain age structure information,
thus a slight discrepancy exists between the total world population
and the total for world age structure (2005 est.)
Median Age:
total: 27.6 years
male: 27 years
female: 28.2 years (2005 est.)
Population Growth Rate: 1.14%
Birth Rate: 20.15 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death Rate: 8.78 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex Ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2005 est.)
Infant Mortality Rate:
total: 50.11 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 52.1 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 48.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)
Life Expectancy At Birth:
total population: 64.33 years
male: 62.73 years
female: 66.04 years (2005 est.)
Total Fertility Rate: 2.6 children born/woman (2005 est.)
Religions:
Christians 32.84% (of which Roman Catholics 17.34%, Protestants
5.78%, Orthodox 3.44%, Anglicans 1.27%),
Muslims 19.9%
Hindus 13.29%
Buddhists 5.92%
Sikhs 0.39%
Jews 0.23%
other religions 12.63%
non-religious 12.44%
atheists 2.36%
(2003 est.)
Languages:
Chinese, Mandarin 13.69%
Spanish 5.05%
English 4.84%
Hindi 2.82%
Portuguese 2.77%
Bengali 2.68%
Russian 2.27%
Japanese 1.99%
German
Standard 1.49%
Chinese, Wu 1.21% (2004 est.)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
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