Catalog / United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (World Population Prospects)

un_wpp

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (World Population Prospects)

Name: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (World Population Prospects)
Creator: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO)Population & Demographics

Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division, World Population Prospects 2024, licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

334,236

Temporal coverage

1950-07-01 – present

Distinct geographies

553

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
Required attribution: Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division, World Population Prospects 2024, licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://population.un.org/wpp/
Provider terms: https://population.un.org/wpp/

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download un_wpp series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/un_wpp
Update cadence: irregular
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: bulk snapshot if changed
Storage layout: two parquet files: data/clean_full/un_wpp/indicators_medium.parquet (~25.9 MB) and indicators_other.parquet (~114 MB). Schema: series_key (string), obs_date date32 (set to July 1 of year), value float64. Keys: WPP:{Indicator}:{Variant}:{ISO3}. (Stray _wpp_log.txt/_wpp_err.txt sidecars present from a prior run.)

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets