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  1. 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. Encompassing the two most highly populated countries in the world – China and India – Asia is by far the largest of the continents, with a total ...

    • Africa

      Africa is the second-largest and second most populous...

    • Asia

      Asia is the largest and most populous of earth's continents...

    • North America

      North America is a subcontinent of the Americas and is...

    • South America

      By far the least populous country in South America is the...

    • Antarctica

      Antarctica is the world's southernmost continent resting in...

    • Central America

      This region comprises approximately 2.31 percent of the...

    • Oceania

      The wider Oceania has an estimated population of 38.82...

    • World

      How many people are alive on earth today? Figuring out the...

    • Latin America

      The 2016 population of over 626 million people may seem like...

  2. Feb 13, 2024 · Feb 13, 2024. There are approximately 7.96 billion people living in the world today, a figure that shows a dramatic increase since the beginning of the Common Era. Since the 1970s, the global ...

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  4. 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 were ...

  5. Jan 22, 2024 · Global population 1800-2100, by continent. The world's population first reached one billion people in 1803, and reach eight billion in 2023, and will peak at almost 11 billion by the end of the ...

    Characteristic
    Asia
    Africa
    Americas
    2100
    4,684,822,376
    3,917,076,934
    1,097,084,529
    2099
    4,705,773,390
    3,901,765,924
    1,100,396,283
    2098
    4,726,641,621
    3,885,829,234
    1,103,690,971
    2097
    4,747,334,169
    3,869,323,835
    1,106,968,426
  6. List of continents and continental subregions by population. This is a list of continents and continental subregions by population. World population by continent, 2021. Asia (59.4%) Africa (17.6%) Europe (9.4%) North America (7.5%) South America (5.5%)

  7. Africa is the second most populated continent, with around 1.34 billion people, or 17% of the world's population. Europe's 747 million people make up 10% of the world's population as of 2020, while the Latin American and Caribbean regions are home to around 653 million (8%).

  8. World Population Prospects publishes United Nations population estimates for all world countries and every year from 1950 to 2020, as well as projections for different scenarios (low, middle and high variants) from 2020 to 2100. The figures presented here correspond to middle variant projections for the given year.