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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. 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 ...

  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. World population will hit 8 billion in November, according to ...

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    The report, “World Population Prospects 2022,” puts the world's population at 7.942 billion now. John Wilmoth, director of the U.N. Population Division, said at a news conference that the date ...

  7. Projections of population growth - Wikipedia

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    The UN Population Division has calculated the future population of the world's countries, based on current demographic trends. In 2022, world population reached 8 billion. The UN's 2022 report projects world population to be 9.7 billion people in 2050, and about 10.3 billion by 2100.

  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 and dependencies by population density

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    This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries.