Here’s the latest on world population from reliable sources:
- Global population reached about 8.2 billion by mid-2024 and is expected to rise by roughly 2 billion over the next 60 years, peaking around 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s, according to UN projections. This is a key takeaway from the UN World Population Prospects 2024 report. [UN: World Population Prospects 2024 summary]
- The UN projects that population growth will slow in many regions and that some high-population countries have already begun to see declines or aging populations, influencing long-term demographic and economic dynamics. [UN WPP 2024 Summary of Results]
- By the mid-2020s, India remained the most populous country, with China’s population growth stabilizing or declining in many measures, shaping global rankings and policy considerations. [UN WPP 2024/UN press materials]
If you’d like, I can pull the most recent press releases or UN summaries and summarize them with direct citations and a quick chart showing projected global population by decade.
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www.ndtv.comThe world population is projected to reach 8.09 billion on January 1, 2025, after witnessing an increase of over 71 million people in 2024, as per the estimates by the US Census Bureau.
www.ndtv.comThe global population reached nearly 8.2 billion by mid-2024 and is expected to grow by another two billion over the next 60 years, peaking at around 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s.
news.un.org• After peaking, the global population is projected to start declining gradually, falling to 10.2 billion people by the end of the century. • The estimated likelihood that the world’s population will peak within the current century is very high (with a probability of 80 per cent). • This represents a major change compared to projections published by the United Nations in 2013, when the estimated probability that global population growth would end during the twenty-first century was around
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