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Current world population and latest projection according the UN. Population in (millions) and percent of the global population in that year. Region 2022 (percent) 2030 (percent) 2050 (percent) Sub-Saharan Africa: 1,152 (14.51%) 1,401 (16.46%) 2,094 (21.62%) Northern Africa and Western Asia: 549 (6.91%) 617 (7.25%) 771 (7.96%) Central Asia and ...
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The overall population of the world is approximately 8...
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Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square...
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The overall population of the world is approximately 8 billion as of November 2022. Currently, population growth is fastest among low wealth, least developed countries. The UN projects a world population of 9.15 billion in 2050, a 32.7% increase from 6.89 billion in 2010.
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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.
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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:
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Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. 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 ...
In 1800, there were one billion people. Today there are more than 8 billion of us. But after a period of very fast population growth, demographers expect the world population to peak by the end of this century. On this page, you will find all of our data, charts, and writing on changes in population growth.
