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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
South America is a subcontinent of the Americas located in...
- 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
Over the next hundred years, the population of the world...
- Latin America
The 2016 population of over 626 million people may seem like...
- Africa
World Population. Close to 7.6 billion people on Earth today; about one billion more in 2030. According to the results of the 2017 Revision, the world’s population numbered nearly 7.6 billion as of mid-2017, implying that the world has added approximately one billion people over the last twelve years.
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Projected growth of the global population Today, the world’s population continues to grow, albeit more slowly than in the recent past. Ten years ago, the global population was growing by 1.24 per cent per year. Today, it is growing by 1.10 per cent per year, yielding an additional 83 million people annually. The world’s population is ...
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population) Total fertility (live births per woman aged 15-49) Percentage of births to women under age 20 among births to women aged 15-49 Life expectancy at birth (years) Under-five mortality (deaths under age 5 per 1,000 live births) Percentage of population Potential support ratio Under age 15 Aged 60 or over (Aged 20-64 / Aged 65+)
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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%)
The world population has risen seven-fold over the last two hundred years and may well reach 11 billion by the end of the twenty-first century. 1 The data shown in the central data sheet concern all geopolitical entities with a population of 150,000 or more, along with a few others.
The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new United Nations report being launched today.
