Actual global human population growth amounts to around 70 million annually, or 0.85% per year. As of 2024, The United Nations projects that global population will peak in the mid-2080s at …

Explore global and country data on population growth, demography, and how this is changing. Population growth is one of the most important topics we cover at Our World in Data. For most …

Jun 1, 2023 · The fastest doubling of the world population happened between 1950 and 1987: from 2.5 to 5 billion people in just 37 years — the population doubled within a little more than …

Jul 11, 2024 · The 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 …

Feb 6, 2025 · Population growth, in population ecology, a change in the number of members of a certain plant or animal species in a particular location during a particular time period. Factors …

Mar 12, 2025 · Population in the world is growing at a rate of around 0.85% per year in 2025 (down from 0.97% in 2020, and 1.25% in 2015). The current population increase is estimated …

The 2022 projections from the United Nations Population Division (chart #1) show that annual world population growth peaked at 2.3% per year in 1963, has since dropped to 0.9% in 2023, …

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 …

Population growth is the increase in the number of humans on Earth. For most of human history our population size was relatively stable. But with innovation and industrialization, energy, …

Jul 15, 2024 · Average exponential rate of growth of the population over a given period. It is calculated as ln(P2/P1) where P1 and P2 are the populations on subsequent years. Available …