World Population 2024 Live Statistics. In the following 84 years, the world population grew by 5 billion people reaching 7 billion in 2011. As of 2024, population size has peaked in 63 countries and areas, including china, germany, japan and the russian federation, and the total population of this group is projected to.

Methodology of the united nations population estimates and projections (un desa/pop/2024/dc/no. Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world’s population living on less than $5 per day, by region how do un population projections compare to the previous revision?.