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  2. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Earth. Population pyramid of the world in 2022 by the UN. Population. Over 8,000,000,000 (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 almost 2 ...

  3. World population - Wikipedia

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    In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. 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 reach a billion and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.

  4. List of countries by ethnic groups - Wikipedia

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    The data in the list are also of variable quality and timeliness, as only irregularly updated estimates are available for many countries. Most of the entries in the list come from the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook database or from national statistical offices. Ethnic groups by country

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

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    List of countries by population (United Nations) 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 2022 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]

  6. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    An estimate on the "total number of people who have ever lived" as of 1995 was calculated by Haub (1995) at "about 105 billion births since the dawn of the human race" with a cut-off date at 50,000 BC (beginning of the Upper Paleolithic), and inclusion of a high infant mortality rate throughout pre-modern history.

  7. Projections of population growth - Wikipedia

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    The table below shows that from 2020 to 2050 and beyond to 2100, the bulk of the world's population growth is projected to take place in Africa. Of the additional 1.9 billion people projected between 2020 and 2050, 1.2 billion will be added in Africa, 0.7 billion in Asia and zero in the rest of the world.

  8. Race and ethnicity in censuses - Wikipedia

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    Australia enumerated its population by race between 1911 and 1966, by racial origin in 1971 and 1976, by ethnic origin in 1981, and by ancestry since 1986. Fiji. The population of Fiji was enumerated by ethnicity from 1881 all the way up to Fiji's most recent census in 2007. Nauru

  9. Multiracial people - Wikipedia

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    The 2001 census showed the population of England to be 1.4% mixed-race, compared with 2.7% in Canada and 1.4% in the U.S. (estimate from 2002), although this U.S. figure did not include mixed-race people who had a parent with African Ancestry.