The 2024 Revision of World Population Prospects is the twenty-eighth edition of official United Nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the Population Division of the …

The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950. It took around 37 years since 1950 for human numbers to double, surpassing 5 billion …

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs provides the international community with timely and accessible population data and analysis of population trends and …

The 2024 Revision is the twenty-eighth round of global population estimates and projections produced by the Population Division since 1951.

The World Population Prospects 2024 is the 28th edition of the official estimates and projections of the global population published by the United Nations since 1951.

It has been issued regularly since 1988 with revised estimates and projections of the urban and rural populations for all countries of the world, and of their major urban agglomerations.

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations has been issuing for several decades revised estimates and projections of the urban and rural populations …

The WUP 2025 presents estimates and projections for 237 countries and areas of the world. Crucially, it provides population estimates for over 12,000 cities with 50,000 inhabitants or more in 2025.

To depict the uncertainty of future demographic trends, the Population Division has developed probabilistic projections for all countries and areas of the world.

Another 40 per cent of the world’s population lives in countries or areas that have already experienced substantial fertility decline and where women have on aver-age between 2.1 and 4 children.