World Population 2024 By Race World Population. Chart and table of world population from 1950 to 2024. 235 rows as of late 2022, the world's population was approximately 8 billion people.
The majority of the world’s population lives in asia, with china and india being the world’s most populous countries, accounting for over 2.8 billion of the planet’s total population. Countries in the world by population (2024) this list includes both countries and dependent territories.