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Watch the world stop growing

150 years, one map: every country lights up the year its population peaks. Red spreads from Europe and East Asia across the planet until, around 2084, the world itself tops out.

1950
 
2.47 billion
world population
0
peaked
172
still growing
Fiji: peaks 2054Tanzania: still growing in 2100Western Sahara: peaks 2089Canada: still growing in 2100United States: still growing in 2100Kazakhstan: still growing in 2100Uzbekistan: still growing in 2100Papua New Guinea: still growing in 2100Indonesia: peaks 2059Argentina: peaks 2050Chile: peaks 2041DR Congo: still growing in 2100Somalia: still growing in 2100Kenya: peaks 2098Sudan: still growing in 2100Chad: still growing in 2100Haiti: peaks 2076Dominican Republic: peaks 2061Russia: peaks 1992Bahamas: peaks 2050Falkland Islands (Malvinas): peaks 2018Norway: peaks 2051Greenland: peaks 2005Fr. S. Antarctic LandsTimor-Leste: peaks 2077South Africa: still growing in 2100Lesotho: peaks 2083Mexico: peaks 2059Uruguay: peaks 2021Brazil: peaks 2042Bolivia: peaks 2087Peru: peaks 2067Colombia: peaks 2051Panama: peaks 2081Costa Rica: peaks 2045Nicaragua: peaks 2072Honduras: peaks 2090El Salvador: peaks 2048Guatemala: peaks 2078Belize: peaks 2063Venezuela: peaks 2057Guyana: peaks 2067Suriname: peaks 2072France: peaks 2096Ecuador: peaks 2063Puerto Rico: peaks 2001Jamaica: peaks 2024Cuba: peaks 2012Zimbabwe: still growing in 2100Botswana: peaks 2088Namibia: still growing in 2100Senegal: still growing in 2100Mali: still growing in 2100Mauritania: still growing in 2100Benin: still growing in 2100Niger: still growing in 2100Nigeria: still growing in 2100Cameroon: still growing in 2100Togo: still growing in 2100Ghana: still growing in 2100Côte d'Ivoire: still growing in 2100Guinea: still growing in 2100Guinea-Bissau: still growing in 2100Liberia: still growing in 2100Sierra Leone: peaks 2093Burkina Faso: still growing in 2100Central African Republic: still growing in 2100Congo: still growing in 2100Gabon: still growing in 2100Equatorial Guinea: still growing in 2100Zambia: still growing in 2100Malawi: still growing in 2100Mozambique: still growing in 2100Eswatini: peaks 2063Angola: still growing in 2100Burundi: still growing in 2100Israel: still growing in 2100Lebanon: peaks 2080Madagascar: still growing in 2100Palestine: still growing in 2100Gambia: still growing in 2100Tunisia: peaks 2052Algeria: peaks 2091Jordan: still growing in 2100United Arab Emirates: still growing in 2100Qatar: still growing in 2100Kuwait: still growing in 2100Iraq: still growing in 2100Oman: still growing in 2100Vanuatu: still growing in 2100Cambodia: peaks 2078Thailand: peaks 2022Laos: peaks 2068Myanmar: peaks 2049Vietnam: peaks 2050North Korea: peaks 2032South Korea: peaks 2021Mongolia: still growing in 2100India: peaks 2062Bangladesh: peaks 2071Bhutan: peaks 2052Nepal: peaks 2067Pakistan: still growing in 2100Afghanistan: still growing in 2100Tajikistan: still growing in 2100Kyrgyzstan: still growing in 2100Turkmenistan: peaks 2079Iran: peaks 2053Syria: peaks 2086Armenia: peaks 1992Sweden: peaks 2080Belarus: peaks 1994Ukraine: peaks 1993Poland: peaks 2023Austria: peaks 2023Hungary: peaks 1980Moldova: peaks 1992Romania: peaks 1991Lithuania: peaks 1992Latvia: peaks 1990Estonia: peaks 1991Germany: peaks 2024Bulgaria: peaks 1989Greece: peaks 2011Türkiye: peaks 2047Albania: peaks 1992Croatia: peaks 1991Switzerland: peaks 2052Luxembourg: peaks 2062Belgium: peaks 2045Netherlands: peaks 2042Portugal: peaks 2010Spain: peaks 2024Ireland: peaks 2053New Caledonia: peaks 2067Solomon Islands: still growing in 2100New Zealand: peaks 2078Australia: still growing in 2100Sri Lanka: peaks 2051China: peaks 2021Taiwan: peaks 2020Italy: peaks 2014Denmark: peaks 2043United Kingdom: peaks 2073Iceland: peaks 2050Azerbaijan: peaks 2051Georgia: peaks 1989Philippines: peaks 2057Malaysia: peaks 2073Brunei: peaks 2055Slovenia: peaks 2024Finland: peaks 2026Slovakia: peaks 2024Czechia: peaks 2023Eritrea: still growing in 2100Japan: peaks 2010Paraguay: peaks 2078Yemen: still growing in 2100Saudi Arabia: still growing in 2100N. CyprusCyprus: peaks 2052Morocco: peaks 2058Egypt: still growing in 2100Libya: peaks 2087Ethiopia: still growing in 2100Djibouti: still growing in 2100SomalilandUganda: still growing in 2100Rwanda: still growing in 2100Bosnia and Herzegovina: peaks 1992North Macedonia: peaks 2006Serbia: peaks 1988Montenegro: peaks 2024KosovoTrinidad and Tobago: peaks 2028South Sudan: still growing in 2100
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What you are watching is the slow end of the fastest growth spurt in human history. The animation begins in 1950 with almost every country growing. The first flickers of red appear in Europe decades ago, then spread through Eastern Europe in the 1990s, reach Japan in 2010, and hit their biggest milestone yet when China peaks in 2021. By the time India tops out around 2062, most of the planet is already past its maximum. The countries still growing in 2100, shown in bright green at the end, cluster in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, joined by a few immigration-driven exceptions like the United States, Canada and Australia.

The static version of this map, with every country’s exact peak year on hover, lives at the population peak map. The why behind the animation is covered in our article When will world population peak? All figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium-variant projection; see the methodology for how we process it.