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Estimates of world population by their nature are an aspect of modernity, possible only since the Age of Discovery.Early estimates for the population of the world [10] date to the 17th century: William Petty, in 1682, estimated the world population at 320 million (current estimates ranging close to twice this number); by the late 18th century, estimates ranged close to one billion (consistent ...
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [8] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [8] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.
The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new report by the ...
It projected the world's population will reach around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 billion in 2100.
The majority of world population growth today is occurring in less developed countries. According to United Nations population statistics, the world population grew by 30%, or 1.6 billion humans, between 1990 and 2010. [39] In number of people the increase was highest in India (350 million) and China (196 million).
In the first scenario, where the world is expected to continue to develop economically in a similar way to the last 50 years, researchers estimate the global population could peak at 8.6 in 2050 ...
The Demography of the World Population from 1950 to 2100. Data source: United Nations — World Population Prospects 2017. Demography (from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, society' and -γραφία (-graphía) 'writing, drawing, description') [1] is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the ...