Q&A - Children
Updated: 22 December 2016
Which country has the largest number of children (aged 0-14)?
Figure 1: Number of children (0-14): Top-15
countries
Chart by GKH. Data Source: UN WPP2015.
Currently, India is home to some 377 million children
under the age of 15.
China has far fewer children: There are "only" some 237 million children aged 0 to 14.
Would you have guessed that Nigeria - not Indonesia - has the third largest population of children? There are more than 80 million children age 0 to 14 in Nigeria.
Figure 2: Percentage of children: Top and bottom 15
countries, 2015
Chart by GKH. Data Source: UN WPP2015.
In 2015, more than half of the population in Niger were children under the age of 15
Most other African countries also have a very high percentages of children in their population. For instance, in Uganda, Chad, Angola and Mali the proportion of children in the population ist more than 47%.
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