In summary, estimates for the progression of world population since the late middle ages are in the following ranges: World population milestones went unnoticed until the 20th century, since there was no reliable data on global population dynamics [2] the population of the world reached [3][4] 1 billion in 1804 2 billion in 1927 3 billion in 1960 4 billion in 1974 5 billion in 1987 6 billion in 1999 7 billion in 2011 8 billion in 2022 old estimates put the global population at In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently alive It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 218 more years to reach 8 billion.
Earth has a human population of over 8.2 billion as of 2025, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in asia, with more than 2.8 billion in the countries of india and china combined The percentage shares of china, india and rest of south asia of the world population have remained at similar levels for the last few. Made using gnumeric (using the chart tool and the data) and tweaked using inkscape Designed to be very similar to the original png version chart If things go according to plan, i'll teach myself how to use gnuplot and make a version with that (and post the source code) which probably won't look like the original version.
Graph of human population from 10000 bce to 2017 ce It shows exponential rise in world population that has taken place since the end of the seventeenth century. These sources like youtube are extremely unreliable sources Whoever made those youtube videos most likely has the un/uscb sources.] this is a list of population milestones by country (and year first reached) Only existing countries are included, not former countries.
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