World Population 2024 In Million. • in 63 countries and areas, containing 28 per cent of the world’s population in 2024, the size of their population peaked before 2024. 1 as recently as 12,000 years ago, there were only 4 million people worldwide.

In its 2022 publication, the un estimated that, in its medium scenario, the global population would peak in 2086 at around 10.4 billion people. The largest populations were in.