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Every other year, Population and Societies publishes a special issue called The population of the world, presenting an overall picture of the situation across the globe.** There are slightly more than 7 billion humans on the planet in 2013. The world population has risen seven-fold over the last two hundred years and is expected to reach 10 or 11 billion by the end of the twenty-first century.
The data shown in the central data sheet concern all geopolitical entities with a population of 150,000 or more, along with a few others. Sovereign states are listed along with non-sovereign territories, including France's overseas départements. Countries and territorial entities are listed following the United Nations system of classification by region and continent.
The demographic indicators are the same as those used in earlier editions: land area, mid-2013 population estimate, birth and death rates, infant mortality rate, total fertility rate, percentage of population under 15 and over 65, male and female life expectancy at birth, gross national income per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity (GNI PPP) in 2012, proportion of persons with HIV/AIDS in 2011 among the adult population aged 15-49 (these figures include persons with full-blown AIDS as well as those infected by the virus who are not yet ill). Note that the indicators are projections, but over a short period, as vital statistics...