Editing 2001 (section)

== Demographics ==
The [[world population]] on January 1, 2001, was estimated to be 6.190&nbsp;billion people and increased to 6.272&nbsp;billion people by January 1, 2002.<ref name="UN Pop Prospects-2022">{{Cite report |url=https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/MostUsed/ |title=World Population Prospects 2022 |date=2022 |publisher=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs |access-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-date=July 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711213112/https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/MostUsed/ |url-status=live }}</ref> An estimated 133.9&nbsp;million births and 52.1&nbsp;million deaths took place in 2001.<ref name="UN Pop Prospects-2022" /> The average global [[life expectancy]] was 66.8 years, an increase of 0.3 years from 2000.<ref name="UN Pop Prospects-2022" /> The rate of [[child mortality]] was 7.32%, a decrease of 0.26[[Percentage point|pp]] from 2000.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Roser |first1=Max |author1-link=Max Roser |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |author2-link=Hannah Ritchie |last3=Dadonaite |first3=Bernadeta |title=Child and Infant Mortality |url=https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality |journal=Our World in Data |date=May 10, 2013 |access-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-date=December 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216051011/https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality |url-status=live }}</ref> 28.25% of people were living in [[extreme poverty]], a decrease of 0.88pp from 2000.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hasell |first1=Joe |last2=Roser |first2=Max |last3=Ortiz-Ospina |first3=Esteban |last4=Arrigada |first4=Pablo |title=Poverty |url=https://ourworldindata.org/poverty |journal=Our World in Data |date=October 17, 2022 |access-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128215030/https://ourworldindata.org/poverty |url-status=live }}</ref>

There were approximately 12&nbsp;million global refugees in 2001. 500,000 were settled over the course of the year, but about the same number of people were displaced in other locations, causing the number of refugees to remain largely unchanged. The largest sources of refugees were from Afghanistan and Macedonia. The number of [[internally displaced person]]s decreased from 21.8&nbsp;million to 19.8&nbsp;million in 2001, with the most affected areas being Afghanistan, Colombia, and Liberia.<ref>{{Cite news |last=del Mundo |first=Fernando |date=2002-06-18 |title=2001 global refugee statistics |url=https://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2002/6/3d0f6dcb5/2001-global-refugee-statistics.html |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=UNHCR |language=en |archive-date=December 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207193756/https://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2002/6/3d0f6dcb5/2001-global-refugee-statistics.html |url-status=live }}</ref>