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  2. World population - Wikipedia

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    High, medium, and low projections of the future human world population [1] In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently alive. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to ...

  3. List of countries by population (United Nations) - Wikipedia

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    Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is a 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.

  4. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Earth. Population pyramid of the world in 2022 by the UN. Population. Over 8,120,531,329 (estimated) Fertility rate. 2.27 (2021) Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with more ...

  5. Demographics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    On April 1, 2020, the United States had a population of 331,449,281, according to the 2020 United States census. [ 31 ] The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook estimated as of 2018 [update], [ 5 ] unless otherwise indicated. Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues.

  6. Population growth - Wikipedia

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    Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. [ 2 ] The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 8.1 billion in 2024. [ 3 ] The UN projected population to keep growing, and estimates have ...

  7. Projections of population growth - Wikipedia

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    1. World population growth 1700–2100, 2022 projection. Population projections are attempts to show how the human population statistics might change in the future. [1] These projections are an important input to forecasts of the population's impact on this planet and humanity's future well-being. [2]

  8. Demographics of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Australia. The population of Australia is estimated to be 27,415,000 as of 20 September 2024. [10] It is the 54th [11] most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas, particularly on the Eastern, South Eastern and Southern seaboards, and is expected ...

  9. Demographics of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The 17,821,419 million Dutch inhabitants are concentrated on an area of 41,543 km 2 (16,040 sq mi) including water surface, the land surface being 33,895 km 2 (13,087 sq mi). This means that the country has a population density of 526/km 2 (1,360/sq mi). The density of 500 inhabitants/km 2 was reached in the first half of 2014.