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  1. In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently alive. 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 218 years more to reach 8 billion.

  2. Populations shown for the Most Populous Countries and on the world map are projected to July 1, 2024. To learn more about world population projections, go to Notes on the World Population Clock. To learn more about international trade data, go to Guide to Foreign Trade Statistics.

    • Selection of Life on Earth in Percent by weight.
    • Selection of Life on Earth in Percent by Weight - Excluding Plants.
    • Selection of Life on Earth in Percent by Weight - only animals.
    Plants: 81.8 %
    Bacteria: 12.7 %
    Fungi: 2.2 %
    Animals: 0.36 %
    Bacteria: 70 %
    Fungi: 12 %
    Animals: 2 %
    Marine arthropods (lobsters, crabs, shrimp etc.) 38 %
    Fish 27 %
    Terrestrial arthropods (spiders, scorpions etc.) 7.7 %
    Molluscs (snails, squids etc.) 7.7 %
  3. Jul 15, 2024 · Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources. HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.

  4. The current population of World in 2024 is 8,118,835,999, a 0.91% increase from 2023. The population of World in 2023 was 8,045,311,447, a 0.88% increase from 2022.

  5. Jun 1, 2023 · This is a mind-boggling change: the world population today is around 2,000 times the size of what it was 12,000 ago when it was around 4 million — less than half of the current population of London. What is striking about this chart is, of course, that almost all of this growth happened just very recently.

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  7. The World Population Dashboard showcases global population data, including fertility rate, gender parity in school enrolment, information on sexual and reproductive health, and much more. Together, these data shine a light on the health and rights of people around the world, especially women and young people.

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