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Jan 5, 2023 · Explore the annual number of births and deaths by region and year from 1950 to 2023. Learn how population growth depends on these two metrics and how they are projected to change in the future.
Worldometer is a website that provides live world statistics on population, government, economy, society, environment, food, water, energy and health. You can see the current world population, births and deaths, net population growth, government and economy indicators, and more.
A web tool that visualizes world birth and death rates in real time based on data from MaxMind. You can see the number of births and deaths, the average time between them, and the population change in different regions and countries.
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The chart above illustrates how world population has changed throughout history. View the full tabulated data. At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million. Over the 8,000-year period up to 1 A.D. it grew to 200 million (some estimate 300 million or even 600, suggesting how imprecise populatio...
A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), and the fifth billion in only 13 years (1987).
World population will therefore continue to grow in the 21st century, but at a much slower rate compared to the recent past. World population has doubled (100% increase) in 40 years from 1959 (3 billion) to 1999 (6 billion). It is now estimated that it will take another nearly 40 years to increase by another 50% to become 9 billion by 2037.
According to a recent study (based on the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion) by The Pew Forum, there are:
Explore global population data, including fertility rate, life expectancy, maternal mortality, and more. Compare countries and regions by indicators such as births attended by skilled health personnel, contraceptive prevalence, and harmful practices.
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Around 108 billion people have ever lived on our planet. This means that today’s population size makes up 6.5% of the total number of people ever born. This increase has been the result of advances in living conditions and health that reduced death rates – especially in children – and increases in life expectancy.
