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China is currently the most populous country in the world, with a population estimated at more than 1.42 billion as of September 2022. Only one other country in the world boasts a population of more than 1 billion people: India, whose population is estimated to be 1.41 billion people—and rising.
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Total Population by Country 2024. Click on a country for details. Not surprisingly, the largest countries in the world in terms of population are China and India, with both countries now having populations of well over a billion. The United States comes in third with just under 325 million residents. The BRIC countries ( Brazil, Russia, India ...
Country2024 Population2023 PopulationArea (km²)1,441,719,8521,428,627,6633.3M1,425,178,7821,425,671,3529.7M341,814,420339,996,5639.4M279,798,049277,534,1221.9MWorldPopulationReview.com is an independent for-profit organization committed to delivering up-to-date global population data and demographics. Our dedicated team of nine professionals spans the globe, each bringing unique expertise and perspectives to our work.
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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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