World Population 2024 Live Country Population. Population by country, available from 10,000 bce to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources. By 2023, world population reaches 8 billion people.

Approximately 5.74 billion people live in these twenty countries, or around 70% of the world’s population. 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.