World Population 2024 Clockwise. • in 48 countries and areas, representing 10 per cent of the world’s population in 2024, population size is projected to peak between 2025 and 2054. Department of economic and social affairs population division.

They include (clockwise from left) filmmaker sterlin harjo, disability justice activist alice wong, scholar and writer ruha. As of 1 january 2024, the population of the world was estimated to be 8,147,701,969.