World Population By Country — Annual Estimates And Projections (Our World In Data)

DatasetCSV.GZOpenPopulationDemographicsOwidUnReferenceFree

58,824 entity-year rows of population estimates for every country, region and the world, with historical estimates and UN medium-variant projections, from Our World in Data's population series as of 2026-09-05.

Use Cases

Per-capita normalisation
Demographic trend analysis
Market sizing

Methodology

Direct parse of the OWID grapher CSV export.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. Refresh annually after the UN WPP release.

Attribution

Source: Our World in Data, based on UN World Population Prospects, HYDE and Gapminder; CC BY 4.0.

Schema

name	type
entity	string
code	string
year	integer
population_historical	integer

Sample Data

code	year	entity	population_historical
AFG	-10000	Afghanistan	14737
AFG	-9000	Afghanistan	20405
AFG	-8000	Afghanistan	28253
AFG	-7000	Afghanistan	39120
AFG	-6000	Afghanistan	54166

Get this via API

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#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
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# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'World Population by Country — Annual Estimates and Projections (Our World in Data)' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

Free

one time · open license

Details

Rows58,824

Size381.3 KB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

Available formats

CSV.GZ381.3 KB

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