WorldPop 2020 · 1 km grid · modeled age structure · Japan 250 m version · by Casey Handmer + Fable

The Aging World

Population density × median age for the whole planet — every inhabited square kilometre, brightness by density, color by the median age of its residents. Click anywhere for that cell's exact WorldPop age pyramid.

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15212630.5 — world median36424855
median age (years) · brightness = people/km², log scale 20 → 20,000

Caveats. WorldPop models age structure from each country's most recent census, disaggregated by satellite-mapped settlement — density is genuinely ~1 km, but age structure is typically uniform within census admin units, so effective age resolution is district-scale. Census vintage varies by country. For counted (not modeled) block-level truth, see the Japan map. Median within a cell is interpolated inside 5-year bands; 80+ treated as 80–100.