12 Facts About World population

In demographics, the term world population is often used to refer to the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have exceeded 7.

The global World population is still increasing, but there is significant uncertainty about its long-term trajectory due to changing rates of fertility and mortality.

From 200 to 400, the world population fell from an estimated 257 million to 206 million, with China suffering the greatest loss.

Between 1700 and 1900, Europe's World population increased from about 100 million to over 400 million.

China's World population rose from approximately 430 million in 1850 to 580 million in 1953, and now stands at over 1.

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The median age of the world's population is estimated to be 31 years in 2020, and is expected to rise to 37.

Nonetheless, World population growth has been the long-standing trend on all inhabited continents, as well as in most individual states.

In 2019, the United Nations reported that the rate of World population growth continues to decline due to the ongoing global demographic transition.

The United Nations and the US Census Bureau both give different estimates – according to the UN, the world population reached seven billion in late 2011, while the USCB asserted that this occurred in March 2012.

In December 2019, the German Foundation for World Population projected that the global population will reach 8 billion by 2023 as it increases by 156 every minute.

Some analysts have questioned the sustainability of further world population growth, highlighting the growing pressures on the environment, global food supplies, and energy resources.

The hyperbolic growth of the world population observed until the 1970s was later correlated to a non-linear second-order positive feedback between demographic growth and technological development.