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The 2022 projections from the United Nations Population Division (chart #1) show that annual world population growth peaked at 2.3% per year in 1963, has since dropped to 0.9% in 2023, equivalent to about 74 million people each year, and could drop even further to minus 0.1% by 2100. [5]
The population growth rate estimates (according to the United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020 [6] The 20 countries in the world in which the population has declined between 2010 and 2015
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. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
World population by age group projection until 2100. [119] Long-term global population growth is difficult to predict. The United Nations and the US Census Bureau both give different estimates – according to the UN, the world population reached seven billion in late 2011, [110] while the USCB asserted that this occurred in March 2012. [120]
While world population growth remains brisk, growing from 6 billion to 8 billion since the turn of the millennium, the rate has slowed since doubling between 1960 and 2000.
Population of the present-day top seven most-populous countries, 1800 to 2100. Future projections are based on the 2024 UN's medium-fertility scenario. Chart created by Our World In Data in 2024. The following is a list of countries by past and projected future population. This assumes that countries stay constant in the unforeseeable future ...
Nigeria is among eight countries the U.N says will account for more than half the world's population growth between now and 2050 — along with fellow African nations Congo, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
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).