Largest child populations by nation, ages 0–14, 2024

Population aged 0–14 in millions, WDI/WPP-linked national values, 2024.

What the Data Shows

This stat ranks large national child populations aged 0–14 in 2024. The data use eight WDI/WPP-linked rows and display counts in millions of people. India leads the included rows at 357.3 million, ahead of China at 234.6 million. The India-China gap is 121.7 million people, larger than Nigeria’s full included child-population value.

Data table

Unit: million people · Period: 2024

RankEntryValuePeriod
1India357.3M2024
2China234.6M2024
3Nigeria98.4M2024
4Pakistan88.8M2024
5Indonesia67.5M2024
6Ethiopia51.0M2024
7DR Congo50.6M2024
8Bangladesh43.5M2024

Sources

Source 1: United Nations DESA, Population Division

Publisher: United Nations DESA, Population Division

Dataset/table: World Population Prospects 2024 online edition

Units: population counts, age shares, fertility rates, median age

Date checked: 2026-05-25

Evidence: Supports the common UN population source family for national demographic estimates through 2024.

Source 2: World Bank World Development Indicators

Publisher: World Bank

Dataset/table: World Development Indicators

Units: persons and percent of total population

Date checked: 2026-05-25

Evidence: Supports broad age-group and child-population estimates based on WDI/WPP-linked indicators.

Source 3: World Bank World Development Indicators

Publisher: Trading Economics

Dataset/table: World Development Indicators

Units: persons

Date checked: 2026-05-25

Evidence: Provides a public WDI-linked row for India's population aged 0-14.

Data notes & caveats

Values are rounded WDI/WPP-linked national counts. Future updates should refresh the row order from a complete source download.

Methodology

Rows use population aged 0–14 in persons, converted to millions and rounded. The chart is a raw value ranking and does not use a world-share denominator.

Source consistency notes

Rows use the WDI/WPP source family and one unit, millions of people aged 0–14.

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