World Population 2024 In Billion. As of 1 january 2024, the population of the world was estimated to be 8,147,701,969. It predicts there’ll be another two billion people on the planet by 2063, peaking at 10.3.

1 as recently as 12,000 years ago, there were only 4 million people worldwide. World population prospects 2024 is the 28th edition of the official estimates and projections of the global population that have been published by the united nations since 1951.