RSSDistribution of the World’s Population: 2000
This chart shows the percentage of global population in 2000 living in the five most populous countries and the remaining countries of the world. The second and third bars show where the world’s children and elderly populations lived, focusing on the five countries comprising the largest shares of these age groups globally. The United States ranked third in terms of total population size in 2000, with just under 5 percent of world population. It also accounted for large shares of the world’s children (ranking fourth among all countries with 3 percent of the world’s under-15 population) and elderly (ranking third among countries with 8 percent of the total).1
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1. The United States in International Context: 2000 (U. S. Census Bureau publication C2KBR/01-11 issued February 2002).