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Population growth (annual %) | Data. Derived from total population. Population source: ( 1 ) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision; ( 2 ) Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices; ( 3 ) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics; ( 4 ) United Nations Statistics Division.
The speed of global population growth over the last few centuries has been staggering. For most of human history, the world population was well under one million. As recently as 12,000 years ago, there were only 4 million people worldwide. The chart shows the rapid increase in the global population since 1700.
Chart and table of World population from 1950 to 2024. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100. 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.
2024. 0.91. Population in the world is growing at a rate of around 0.91% per year in 2024 (up from 0.88% in 2023, and down from 0.98% in 2020, and 1.06% in 2019). The current population increase is estimated at around 73 million people per year. Annual growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at around 2%.
The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new United Nations report being launched...
The 2022 Revision of World Population Prospects is the twenty-seventh edition of official United Nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the Population...
Jul 11, 2022 · Since 2019, the global population growth rate has fallen below 1%. That’s less than half its peak growth rate – of 2.3% – in the 1960s. As global fertility rates continue to fall (see below), this rate will continue to fall. The UN estimates around 15 million excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world's population living on less than $5 per day, by region; Marriages per 1,000 people; Military personnel as a share of total population; Natural population growth with UN projections; Natural population growth rate vs. child mortality rate; Natural population growth rate vs. median ...
For countries or areas with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants in 2021, only figures related to population size and growth are provided. The estimates and projections contained in this revision cover a...
Home. World population trends. It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to one billion – then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold. In 2011, the global population reached the seven billion mark, and in November 2022, it reached eight billion.
