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There are seven continents in the world: Africa. Antarctica. Asia. Australia. Europe. North America. South America. As of 2017, the global population has reached more than 7.5 billion people, spanning the inhabited continents of Africa, North and South America, Asia, Europe and Australia/ Oceania.
- Africa
Africa is the second-largest and second most populous...
- Asia
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- North America
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- Antarctica
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Continent: Population (2021) % (world) ±% p.a. (2010–2013) Countries (2021) World: 7,909,295,151: 100%: 1.17% 191 Asia: 4,694,576,167: 59.4%: 1.04% 49 Africa: 1,393,676,444: 17.6%: 2.57% 54 Europe: 745,173,774: 9.4%: 0.08% 51 North America: 595,783,465: 7.5%: 0.96% 23 South America: 434,254,119: 5.5%: 1.06% 12 Oceania: 44,491,724: 0.6%: 1.47 ...
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- Asia, the Largest Continent. Asia is by far the largest continent in the world, spanning 17.2 million square miles (44.6 million square kilometers). Being the largest geographically also puts Asia at an advantage population-wise, as having 4.6 billion of the world's 7.7 billion-person population.
- Africa. Africa is No. 2 on both lists: population and size. In area, it spans 11.6 million square miles (30 million square kilometers). Its population is estimated at 1.3 billion.
- North America. North America is where area and population diverge in their rankings because this continent's population is not growing as fast as Asia's.
- South America. South America is the fourth-largest continent, spanning 6.9 million square miles (17.8 million square kilometers). It is fifth on the world population list, with 431 million people living there.
Jan 29, 2024 · Europe has a population of around 742 million (9.13%), North America is home to around 608 million (7.49%), South America, the second least populated continent, has about 443 million inhabitants (5.45%). Oceania (46 million) is the smallest continent on the basis population if Antarctica is excluded as there is no population estimates for ...
May 22, 2024 · In the middle of 2023, about 60 percent of the global population was living in Asia. The total world population amounted to 8.1 billion people on the planet. In other words 4.7 billion people...
Feb 14, 2023 · Asia is the largest and most populous continent, while Australia and Oceania are the smallest and least populous. Africa is the continent with the most countries, 54. South America has the least number of countries, at 12. The first and second most populous countries in the world, China and India, are both in Asia.
A hundred years ago, in the beginning of the 20th century the entire world population was less than 2 billion people. Today, in 2017, the current world population has exceeded 7 billions (7,299,000,000).
