Data Sources & Licenses

Every figure on this site can be traced to one of these primary sources:

• United Nations World Population Prospects 2024 (CC BY 3.0 IGO) — All country-level demographic indicators, estimates 1950–2023 and projections 2024–2100 (medium variant).
• GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) — City names, coordinates, populations and administrative regions.
• mledoze/countries (ODbL 1.0) — Country names, ISO codes, capitals, regions, languages and currencies.
• Natural Earth (via world-atlas) (Public domain) — Country boundary geometry for the interactive map.
• Flagpedia (flagcdn.com) (Free use) — Country flag images.

Citing us? “Source: worldpopulation.online, based on UN World Population Prospects 2024” works great.