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How many children are there in the world? Indicator: Population under age 18. Location: World. Note: If data are not available for a specific year or if the year has not been specified, the most recent data point will be shown. Show Intro.
Fertility rate: children per woman with UN projections; Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world's population living on less than $5 per day, by region; How do UN Population projections compare to the previous revision? Marriages per 1,000 people; Natural population growth with UN projections
A Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 2.1 represents the Replacement-Level Fertility: the average number of children per woman needed for each generation to exactly replace itself without needing international immigration. A value below 2.1 will cause the native population to decline.
Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision.
Population ages 0-14, total. World Bank staff estimates using the World Bank's total population and age/sex distributions of the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision.
How Many Children are in the World? Currently, there are an estimated 2 billion children in the world ages zero to 14 years old. Because of the declining fertility rates, this number is expected to peak in 2050 at 2.06 billion and then decrease to 1.9 billion again in 2100.
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