Latest News About World Population

Updated 2026-04-23 04:01

Here’s the latest on world population from reliable sources:

If you’d like, I can pull the most recent press releases or UN summaries and summarize them with direct citations and a quick chart showing projected global population by decade.

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Stay up to date with the latest WorldPop news - stories, research and program updates on high-resolution population data, geospatial modelling, climate health projections, COVID-19 insights, and more from the world's leading spatial demographic research group.

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World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results

• After peaking, the global population is projected to start declining gradually, falling to 10.2 billion people by the end of the century. • The estimated likelihood that the world’s population will peak within the current century is very high (with a probability of 80 per cent). • This represents a major change compared to projections published by the United Nations in 2013, when the estimated probability that global population growth would end during the twenty-first century was around

population.un.org

Rapid Growth

The global population reached nearly 8.2 billion by mid-2024 and is expected to grow by another two billion over the next 60 years, peaking at around 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s.

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