Learn about the impact of population growth and important milestones in human history and view other key data including land use, fertility rates, co2 emissions, life expectancy, and urbanization. Historical data from 1950 to 2025. Population is the most commonly used metric throughout our world in data
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We construct this indicator by combining multiple sources covering different periods.
The cornerstone of world population history is an interactive map of the world, where dots represent human population (one dot = one million people)
At any time between 1 ce and 2050, you can zoom in on the map and click on individual dots to learn more about the population of that area Turn on any number of map overlays to see how fertility rates, carbon emissions, land cover, and life. Population growth through history from 5000 bc to the current year (2025) for the entire population of the world Deep prehistory graph of world population over the past 12,000 years (holocene) as a general rule, the confidence of estimates on historical world population decreases for the more distant past
Robust population data exist only for the last two or three centuries Until the late 18th century, few governments had ever performed an accurate census. Total population for the world in 2024 was 8,118,835,999, a 0.71% increase from 2023 Total population for the world in 2023 was 8,061,876,001, a 0.9% increase from 2022
Total population for the world in 2022 was 7,989,981,520, a 0.87% increase from 2021
