Lebanon's Population: 5.33 Million in 2050 - male female

Lebanon's Population: 5.33 Million in 2050

The world population is projected to top nine billion in 2050, up from 6.8 billion this year and seven billion early in 2012, while Lebanon's population is expected to reach 5.33 million in 50 years, according to U.N. estimates.

"There have been no big changes for the recent estimates and we have not changed the assumptions for the future," Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Population Division at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), told reporters in New York.

"We're still projecting that by 2050 the population of the world will be around 9.1 billion," she said, as she presented the 2008 Revision of the World Population Prospects.

The Revision also says that nine countries are expected to account for half of the world's projected increase from 2010 to 2050: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, United States, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tanzania, China and Bangladesh.

Zlotnik noted that current projections are based on the assumption that fertility is going to decline from the current global level of 2.5 children per woman to 2.1 children per woman from now until 2050.

The population of the 49 least developed countries (LDCs) is still the fastest growing in the world, at 2.3 per cent per year, according to a news release issued by the Population Division.

While the population of developing countries as a whole is projected to rise from 5.6 billion in 2009 to 7.9 billion in 2050, the population of more developed regions is expected to change minimally, passing from 1.23 billion to 1.28 billion.

The 2008 Revision of the World Population Prospects said Lebanon's population which currently stands at 4.224 million, will rise to 5.33 million in 2050.

Lebanon's male population will be 2.468 million while there will be 2.565 million women in 2050, according to the U.N. estimates.