With the number still ticking up, where are we now? The figure for the current world population depends on where you look – ...

The 0.9% increase in 2024 was a slight slowdown from last year, when the world population grew by 75 million people. In January 2025, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths were expected worldwide every second ...

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day. The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will ...

As the theme of this year’s World Population Day reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions, and driving progress. So is finance.

Combined with the birth and death rates, it means that the U.S. population will grow by one person every 21.2 seconds throughout the first month of the year. The world's population is also set to ...

If the current course is not altered, we’ll reach 8 billion by 2020 and 9 to 15 billion (likely the former) by 2050. No population of a large vertebrate animal in the history of the planet has grown ...

China’s population has fallen for the third straight year, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second ...