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  1. 15 hours ago · This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2022 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.

  2. 15 hours ago · This is a list of countries and dependencies by population. It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. For instance, the United Kingdom is considered a single entity, while the ...

  3. 1 day ago · In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.

  4. 1 day ago · Africa, the second largest continent, covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth. Africa’s total land area is approximately 11,724,000 square miles (30,365,000 square km), and the continent measures about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from north to south and about 4,600 miles (7,400 km) from east to west.

  5. Approximately 5.71 billion people live in these twenty countries, or around 70% of the world's population. See also: Full List of countries and dependent territories of the World by population Continents (28-05-2024)

  6. 3 days ago · The projections are based on a monthly series of population estimates starting with the April 1, 2020 resident population from the 2020 Census. At the end of each year, a revised series of population estimates from the census date forward is used to update the short-term projections for the population clock.

  7. 1 day ago · The United States is a country in North America that is a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii, in the mid-Pacific Ocean.

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