Current World Population 2024 In Billion. Data based on the latest united nations population division estimates. 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.
As nearly half of the world’s population headed to the polls this year, politics grabbed many of the headlines. There are 8.2 billion human beings on the planet this year (2024), and the projection for 2050 is 9.7 billion.