Insights

Population · China

China's population decline has started, gently for now

Deaths now outnumber births. The next decades are already written in the age pyramid.

Population · India

India passed China, and is already slowing down

The world's most populous country now has below-replacement fertility.

Population · Egypt

Egypt: 114 million people on 4 percent of the land

Egypt's paper density is unremarkable. Its lived density is among the highest on earth.

Two in five under fifteen (Arabic)

متوسط العمر في السودان دون العشرين، ورقم واحد يفسر الكثير عن المدارس والوظائف.

Khartoum after the exodus (Arabic)

كانت العاصمة تضم قرابة تسعة ملايين نسمة قبل 2023. عدّ من بقي فيها اليوم مهمة عسيرة.

Sudanese fertility is falling, just slowly

From over six children per woman in the 1980s to around four and a half today.

Urbanisation is a one-way door

About a third of Sudanese live in cities, and the share only moves in one direction.

Sudan is a river with a country attached

Trace the Nile and its two arms on our map and you have traced most of the population.

What a birth rate of 33 actually feels like

Crude birth rate is a dry ratio. Converted to daily life, it means a delivery every 20 seconds nationwide.

Two out of five Sudanese are under fifteen

Sudan's median age sits below twenty. That single number explains a lot about schools, jobs and politics.

Khartoum's population is a moving target

The capital held close to nine million people before 2023. Counting who is there now is genuinely hard.