Others have estimated the number of human beings who have ever lived to be anywhere from 45 billion to 125 billion, with most estimates falling into the range of 90 to 110 billion humans.

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Current World Population: 7.959 billion (2022)

How many people are there in the world? World population has reached 7.7 billion. World population live counter with data sheets, graphs, maps, and census data regarding the current, historical, and future world population figures, estimates, growth rates, densities and demographics

The chart above illustrates how world population has changed throughout history. <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/">View the full tabulated data. </a>

At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million. Over the 8,000-year period up to 1 A.D. it grew to 200 million (some estimate 300 million or even 600, suggesting how imprecise population estimates of early historical periods can be), with a growth rate of under 0.05% per year.

A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereasit had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion , the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), and the fifth billion in only 13 years (1987).

<ul><li>During the 20th century alone, the population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. </li><li>In 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now. </li><li>Because of declining <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate">growth rates </a>, it will now take over 200 years to double again. </li> </ul>

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Population in the world is, as of 2020, growing at a rate of around 1.05% per year (down from 1.08% in 2019, 1.10% in 2018, and 1.12% in 2017). The current average population increase is estimated at 81 million people per year .

Annual growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at around 2%. The rate of increase has nearly halved since then, and will continue to decline in the coming years.

World population will therefore continue to grow in the 21st century, but at a much slower rate compared to the recent past . World population has doubled (100% increase) in 40 years from 1959 (3 billion) to 1999 (6 billion). It is now estimated that it will take another nearly 40 years to increase by another 50% to become 9 billion by 2037.

The latest <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-projections/">world population projections </a>indicate that world population will reach 10 billion persons in the year 2057.

The United Nations projects world population to reach 10 billion in the year 2057.

World population is expected to reach 9 billion in the year 2037.

World population is expected to reach 8 billion people in 2023 according to the United Nations (in 2026 according to the U.S. Census Bureau).

The current world population is 7.96 billion as of July 2022 [<a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#ref-1">1 </a>] according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometer. The term "World Population" refers to the human population (the total number of humans currently living) of the world.

According to a recent study (based on the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion) by <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious-landscape-unaffiliated.aspx">The Pew Forum </a>, there are:

<ul><li>2,173,180,000 Christians (31% of world population), of which 50% are Catholic, 37% Protestant, 12% Orthodox, and 1% other. </li><li>1,598,510,000 Muslims (23%) , of which 87-90% are Sunnis, 10-13% Shia. </li><li>1,126,500,000 No Religion affiliation (16%) : atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion. One-in-five people (20%) in the United States are religiously unaffiliated. </li><li>1,033,080,000 Hindus (15%) , the overwhelming majority (94%) of which live in India. </li><li>   487,540,000 Buddhists (7%) , of which half live in China. </li><li>   405,120,000 Folk Religionists (6%) : faiths that are closely associated with a particular group of people, ethnicity or tribe. </li><li>      58,110,000 Other Religions (1%) : Baha’i faith, Taoism, Jainism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Tenrikyo, Wicca, Zoroastrianism and many others. </li><li>      13,850,000 Jews (0.2%) , four-fifths of which live in two countries: United States (41%) and Israel (41%). </li> </ul>

Assuming that we start counting from about 50,000 B.C., the time when modern Homo sapiens appeared on the earth (and not from 700,000 B.C. when the ancestors of Homo sapiens appeared, or several million years ago when hominids were present), taking into account that all population data are a rough estimate, and assuming a constant growth rate applied to each period up to modern times, <a href="http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx">it has been estimated </a>that a total of approximately 106 billion people have been born since the dawn of the human species, making the population currently alive roughly 6% of all people who have ever lived on planet Earth.

Others have estimated the number of human beings who have ever lived to be anywhere from 45 billion to 125 billion, with most estimates falling into the range of 90 to 110 billion humans.

The world population counter displayed on Worldometer takes into consideration data from two major sources: the United Nations and the U.S. Census Bureau .

<ol><li>The <a href="http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/">United Nations Population Division </a>of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs every two years calculates, updates, and publishes estimates of total population in its World Population Prospects series. These population estimates and projections provide the standard and consistent set of population figures that are used throughout the United Nations system. The <a href="https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/">World Population Prospect: the 2019 Revision </a>provides the most recent data available (released in June of 2019). Estimates and projected world population and country specific populations are given from 1950 through 2100 and are released every two years. Worldometer, as it is common practice, utilizes the medium fertility estimates. Data underlying the population estimates are national and sub national census data and data on births, deaths, and migrants available from national sources and publications, as well as from questionnaires. For all countries, census and registration data are evaluated and, if necessary, adjusted for incompleteness by the Population Division as part of its preparations of the official United Nations population estimates and projections. </li><li>The <a href="https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/international-programs/about/idb.html">International Programs Center </a>at the U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division also develops estimates and projections based on analysis of available data (based on census, survey, and administrative information) on population, fertility, mortality, and migration for each country or area of the world. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, world population reached 7 billion on March 12, 2012. For most countries adjustment of the data is necessary to correct for errors, omissions, and inconsistencies in the data. Finally, since most recent data for a single country is often at least two years old, the current world population figure is necessarily a projection of past data based on assumed trends . As new data become available, assumptions and data are reevaluated and past conclusions and current figures may be modified. For information about how these estimates and projections are made by the U.S. Census Bureau, see the <a href="https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/international-programs/about/idb.html#par_textimage_1">Population Estimates and Projections Methodology </a>. </li> </ol>

World Population Clock: 7.96 Billion People (2022)

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