Estimated World Population 2024. As of 1 january 2024, the population of the world was estimated to be 8,147,701,969. • in 63 countries and areas, containing 28 per cent of the world’s population in 2024, the size of their population peaked before 2024.

( 1 ) united nations population division. The us census bureau’s world population clock estimated that the global population as of september 2022 was 7,922,312,800 people and was expected to reach 8 billion by mid.