Population size by region, 2019, 2050 and 2100 (billions) According to the medium variant of World Population Prospects 2019, the global population is projected to continue to grow, rising from 7.7 billion in 2019 to 10.9 billion at the end of the century (bold line of figure 1).
World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations
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 Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.
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Global population size: estimates, 1950-2021, and medium projection with 95 per cent prediction intervals, 2022-2050. The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950.
World Urbanization Prospects - Population Division - United Nations
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 of all countries in the world and of their major urban agglomerations.
World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations
With each successive revision of the World Population Prospects, the Population Division of the United Nations estimates historical demographic trends for the period from 1950 to the present and projects future population trends out to 2100.
World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024.
This report provides a detailed overview of the methodology used to produce the 2022 Revision of the official United Nations population estimates and projections, prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.
populous country, likely in the early 2020s. By 2050, Nigeria may pass the United States in population size to become the world’s third largest country. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia are also projected to experience major population growth, bringing them into the top 10 by 2050.
Top ten countries or areas with the largest relative difference in population size for mid-2021 between the 2019 and 2022 revisions, ranked by percentage difference. Country/Area. Summary of revisions in total population estimates for mid-2021 …
World Urbanization Prospects - Population Division - United Nations
Note: Proportion of urban population in the current country, subregion and region as compared to the ranked urban proportions of all countries of the world (grey area).