Current World Population 2024 In Billion. To learn more about world population projections, go to notes on the world population. It took 13 years for the world population to go from 7 billion to 8 billion but it will take an estimated 14 years to add another.
As of 1 january 2024, the population of the world was estimated to be 8,147,701,969. The world population is predicted to peak at about 10.3 billion people in the 2080s, according to a report released thursday by the united nations.