Population, Total - SP.POP.TOTL

Data - WDI

Author

François Geerolf

Last observation: 2025 (N = 264)

First observation: 1960 (N = 263)

Last data update: 04 sept. 2026, 00:28

Last compile: 04 sept. 2026, 00:44

Nobs - Javascript

Code 
SP.POP.TOTL |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n(),
            `Year 1` = first(year),
            `Pop 1` = first(value),
            `Year 2` = last(year),
            `Pop 2` = last(value)) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) |>
  mutate(Flag = gsub(" ", "-", str_to_lower(Iso2c)),
         Flag = paste0('<img src="../../bib/flags/vsmall/', Flag, '.png" alt="Flag">')) |>
  select(Flag, everything()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F, escape = F) else .}

China, E.U., U.S.

All

Code 
SP.POP.TOTL |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "US", "CN", "EU")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 25)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% de la population mondiale")

1980-

Code 
SP.POP.TOTL |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "US", "CN", "EU")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("1980-01-01")) |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 25)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% de la population mondiale")

Germany, France, Italy

All

Code 
SP.POP.TOTL |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "DE", "FR", "IT")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 0.5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = .1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 3)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% de la population mondiale")

1980-

Code 
SP.POP.TOTL |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "DE", "FR", "IT")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("1980-01-01")) |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 0.5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = .1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 3)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% de la population mondiale")