What percentage of the world lives in more developed countries?

The population of the World’s developed countries is currently a little over 1.3 billion people. This is about 17% of the world population today and will be about 50% of the world population by 2050.

What percentage of the world’s population lives in the least developed countries?

Although LDCs account for just 14% of the world’s population, they comprise more than 50% of the world’s extremely poor (i.e. those living on less than $1.9 a day). But the economy of these countries accounts for just 1.3% of the world total.

What is the population of the developed world?

World population in 2000 totaled 6,067,000,000 (6.1 billion) with 1,184,000,000 living in the more developed countries (Europe, North America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) and 4,883,000,000 in the less developed countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

What percentage of countries are developing?

In 2017, 9 percent of the global population was under age 5. Young people ages 10–24 account for about 1.8 billion of the world’s population. Ninety percent of them live in developing countries.

Which countries will soon become developed?

62.7 (2020) 0.709 (high) Latin America. Brazil. 2,363,767. 6,450. 4,078,901. 14,563. 53.9 (2018) 0.765 (high) 2.8. Mexico. 1,040,372. 8,069. 2,424,511. 18,804. 45.4 (2018) 0.779 (high) 3.5. Asia-Pacific. China.