demographics

Do you ever wonder how many Catholics there are in the world? Do you ever wonder about languages and which ones are spoken the most? Do you ever wonder what country is the most populated? I wonder about those things, sporadically. So I looked it up :-)

41% of the worlds population is between 25-54 years old

25% of the worlds population is between 0-14 years old

31% of the world that practices some kind of religion, are Christian; followed by Muslim at 23% and Hindu at 15%.

All told, there are an estimated 7,100 languages spoken in the world today! A lot of them are just derivatives of the same language though. 12% of the world speaks Mandarin Chinese. 6% of the world speak Spanish and 5% of the world speaks English.

86% of the world, over the age of 15, can read and write. 2/3rds of the world's illiterate adults are women.

The world's population reached 1 billion in 1804(estimated) 2 billion in 1927, 3 billion in 1960, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, 6 billion in 1999 and 7 billion in 2011.

1.4 billion people live in China. 1.3 billion in India. 326 million in the US. 261 million in Indonesia.

The most densely populated nation in the world is Monaco with 18,713 people per square km -  Bangladesh is the most densely populated country - 161 million people there. Whoa! The least densely populated place on earth? Greenland. only .03 people per km.

Interesting, isn't it??