Total Population - Both Sexes. De facto population in a country, area or region as of 1 July of the year indicated. Figures are presented in thousands. ## Data Data comes from [United Nations' Population Division datasets](https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/). Total population (both sexes combined) by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950-2100 (thousands). Data is cleaned, normalized, "un-pivoted", and represented in nice machine readable way in CSV format. Dataset represented here has several resources: * Estimates from 1950 - 2015. Original * Medium fertility variant, 2015 - 2100 * High fertility variant, 2015 - 2100 * Low fertility variant, 2015 - 2100 * Constant fertility variant, 2015 - 2100 * Instant replacement fertility variant, 2015 - 2100 * Momentum fertility variant, 2015 - 2100 * Zero Migration variant, 2015 - 2100 * Constant Mortality variant, 2015 - 2100 ## Preparation You will need Python 3.6 or greater and dataflows library to run the script To update the data run the process script locally: ``` # Install dataflows pip install dataflows # Run the script python population_estimates.py Several steps will be done to get the final data. ``` ## Licence United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2017). World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision, DVD Edition.