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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.
- World Population Milestones
The United Nations Population Fund designated 12 October...
- Population
The United Nations Population Fund designated 12 October...
- Estimates of Historical World Population
By world region UN estimates (as of 2017) for world...
- Most Populous Country
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square...
- World Population Milestones
According to the highest estimate, the world population may rise to 16 billion by 2100; according to the lowest estimate, it may decline to only 6 billion. The world's population is the number of people on Earth. It is increasing all the time because more people are being born than are dying. The population of the world can be changed by other ...
2.27 (2021) Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with almost 2.8 billion in the countries of China and India combined. The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world ...
- 2.32 (2021)
- Over 8,000,000,000 (estimated)
List of countries by population (United Nations) 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]
LocationPopulation (1 July 2022)Population (1 July 2023)Change7,975,105,1568,045,311,448+0.88%1,417,173,1731,428,627,663+0.81%1,425,887,3371,425,671,352−0.02%338,289,857339,996,564+0.50%
