Population pyramids for selected countries in the regions of the world

This page is a companion page to:

UN Population Policies, World Demographics, Job Fatalities and 
The Extermination of Men

Comments and notes pertaining to the attributes of the population pyramids shown below are contained at that page.

Selected Regions and Countries

Regions	Countries
The World Caribbees Central America North America South America Central Europe Eastern Europe Northern Europe Scandinavia Oceania East Asia South East Asia West Asia Central Africa North Africa South Africa	Algeria Argentina Australia Bahamas Brazil Canada China Cuba Ecuador Egypt Finland France Germany India Italy Indonesia Israel Japan	Mexico New Zealand Nigeria Norway Panama Philippines Poland Russia Rwanda Saudi Arabia South Africa Sweden Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom USA

The US population characteristics are covered in additional detail in a separate page.

North Africa

Central Africa

South Africa

Caribbees

Central America

North America

See also Canada's changing proportions of people of school age, of working age and of retirement age over time.

For more recent and detailed coverage see US Demographics

South America

Central Europe

See also Germany's changing proportions of people of school age, of working age and of retirement age over time.

Eastern Europe

Northern Europe

Scandinavia

Oceania

South East Asia

East Asia

Will the populations of China and India, comprising a little over one-third of the world population, outgrow the capacity of those countries to sustain themselves?  The answer will surprise many, but in a way that is most likely totally unexpected.

Will the populations of China and India, comprising a little over one-third of the world population, outgrow the capacity of those countries to sustain themselves?  The answer will surprise many, but in a way that is most likely totally unexpected.

West Asia

* Is the world overpopulated?

If all of the world's people were located in the Province of Alberta (just a touch smaller in area than the State of Texas) and each were to have an equal share of all of the land in Alberta, then each of the world's people would have 98.6m² of land to live on.

Assuming that the average household consists of three people, a family of three would have enough space (3,184 ft²) for a moderately-sized house and a garden large enough to grow some of the food consumed by the family.

• Alberta land area: 661,565 km², 255,541 miles²
• World population: 6,706,993,152 (Source: CIA World Factbook, July 2008 est.)

See also: The 1989 Montreal Massacre in the context of men’s sacrifices, 2008 12 07, by Professor Jeffrey Asher.

Update 2010 08 26: I don't know whether anyone ever read the assertions contained in this footnote.  If the assertions were read, then everyone having read them must have thought that they were so outrageous and so totally-out-to-lunch that they were not even worth commenting on, because no one ever commented on them.  That is odd, given that so many people claim that humanity must be drastically reduced so as to avert ecological catastrophes of epic proportions.  However, consider something else, Phytofarm, that is: farming by means of the use of artificial light.

At the current efficiency of PhytoFarm, the entire present population of the world can be supplied from a square area about 140 miles on a side - about the area of Massachusetts and Vermont combined, and less than a tenth of Texas. This represents only about a thousandth as much land as is needed for agriculture at present (give or take a factor of four; for illustrative purposes greater exactitude is unnecessary). And if for some reason that seems like too much space, you can immediately cut the land space by a factor of ten: just build food factories ten stories high, which should present no more problems that a ten-story office building. You could economize even more and build a hundred stories high, like the Empire State Building or the Sears Tower. Then the surface area needed would be no more than the space within the corporate limits of Austin, Texas, to pick the first alphabetically among the many U.S. cities large enough.
    PhytoFarm techniques could feed a hundred times the world's present population - say 500 billion people - with factory buildings a hundred stories high, on one percent of present farmland. [My emphasis — WHS]  To put it differently, if you raise your bed to triple bunk-bed height, you can grow enough food on the two levels between the floor and your bed to supply your nutritional needs.

The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment (1998), by Julian L. Simon
CHAPTER SIX, WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON FOOD PRODUCTION?

I know, I know.  You must think about where all of the energy to produce the required light will be coming from.  Never fear, Julian Simon thought of that.  Read the book and you will find out.  Come on!  If you are sufficiently worried about over-population that you feel driven to stop reproducing and even try to limit other people's wish to propagate, you must be interested enough to read just one book.  No?  You mean you have your mind so firmly made up that no facts will confuse you?

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2002 02 22 (inserted links to information on population distributions over time in China, India, Canada and Germany)
2010 08 26 (added update to footnote)