World Total Population 2024. In 2024, the world reached a total population of 8,161,972,572 and 🇮🇳 india was the most populous country that year, with a total of 1,450,935,791 people. Summary of results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller.

Chart and table of world population from 1950 to 2024. It has increased eightfold within 2 centuries and is likely to continue growing, perhaps even reaching 10 billion by the end of the 21st century.