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Country Number of births (2023) India 23,219,489 China 8,899,881 Nigeria 7,509,758 Pakistan 6,882,058 Indonesia 4,482,359 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,369,683
The 2024 average of 17 births per 1,000 total population equates to approximately 4.3 births per second or about 260 births per minute for the world. On average, two people in the world die every second or about 121 per minute. [8]
Africa is the second most populated continent, with around 1.34 billion people, or 17% of the world's population. Europe's 747 million people make up 10% of the world's population as of 2020,while the Latin American and Caribbean regions are home to around 653 million (8%).
In honor of the United Nation's World Population Day, we take a look at some useful facts about the planet (and population!) we call our own. ... The post How Many People Are There in the World ...
The world has hundreds of major cities, mostly in coastal regions. According to the latest official data, the world population is 8,179,580,000 people. As of 2022, the world had 159 metropolitan areas with a population of over 3,000,000 people each. [30] As of 2010, about 3 billion people live in or around urban areas. [7]
How many people are born on Leap Day? According to the Associated Press , about 5 million people worldwide share a Leap Day birthday. That's about 0.06% of the 8 billion people on the planet.
Arthur C. Clarke in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) has the claim that "Behind every man, now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living", which was roughly accurate at the time of writing. [9] [10] Recent estimates of the "total number of people who have ever lived" are in the order of 100 billion.
People born this day of the next year: 18 December. Primarily currently living people. Last update: 03:36, 18 December 2024 (UTC) (GMT), generally updated daily before noon.