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  2. World population - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of countries by population (United Nations) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Population Reference Bureau - Wikipedia

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    The Population Reference Bureau offers an annual World Population Data Sheet, which is a chart containing data from 200 countries concerning important demographic and health variables, such as total population, fertility rates, infant mortality rates, HIV/AIDS prevalence, and contraceptive use.

  5. World Population hits 8 billion, creating many challenges - AOL

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    Indian commuters leave at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj train terminus in Mumbai, India, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. The world's population is projected to hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday ...

  6. Projections of population growth - Wikipedia

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    Projections of population growth. 1. World population growth 1700–2100, 2022 projection. Population projections are attempts to show how the human population statistics might change in the future. [1] These projections are an important input to forecasts of the population's impact on this planet and humanity's future well-being. [2]

  7. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Earth. Population pyramid of the world in 2022 by the UN. Population. Over 8,000,000,000 (estimated) Fertility rate. 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. List of countries and dependencies by population - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. List of countries by total fertility rate - Wikipedia

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    The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) ranking list is based on the data of the 2023 World Population Data Sheet published online. The PRB is a private, nonprofit organization which informs people around the world about population, health and the environment for research or academic purposes. It was founded in 1929.