Last updated 2026-08-07 · UN World Population Prospects 2024
An outside count of the humans.
This register follows how many people live in each political country they have drawn — whether those numbers are still rising, where they have already turned down, and what births, deaths, and migration are doing to the total. The world as a whole is still growing. Start with where the humans are.
World population is projected to keep growing for about 58 years, toward a peak of 10.29bn around 2084, then decline slowly under the WPP medium variant.
From the record
29 countries Where is decline already sustained? See the longest streaks→ 62 countries How fast are populations shrinking now? Compare decline pace→ 46 countries Where do 65+ already outnumber under-18s? View age crossover→ 10 countries Where does migration reverse natural decline? Open migration→ 131 countries Where is fertility already below two? Open fertility trends→ 58 years How far is the projected world peak? Open the outlook→
SOURCE · UN WPP 2024 CHECKS PASSED · DETAILS⌄
Release2024 Revision, Online Edition
RevisionPOP/DB/WPP/Rev.2024/GEN/F01/Rev.1
Retrieved2026-06-25T11:25:03+00:00
LicenceCC BY 3.0 IGO
Formulaglobal-series-v1 · shrinking-aggregate-v1 · population-state-v2 · decline-pace-acceleration-v1 · age-crossover-65-plus-vs-under-18-v1 · migration-contribution-v1
Transformpipeline/derive/wpp.py · site/src/lib/home-discovery.ts
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Measurement universeAll 237 WPP countries and areas; each question retains the eligibility rule of its linked evidence view. Years to peak are counted from 2026.
Reference time2023 observed age structure; 2024 projected population state, decline pace, and migration contribution.
UnitCountry/area count; years to the WPP Medium world-population peak; people; percentage of population; people per year.
Evidence status2023 observed age crossover; 2024 WPP medium-variant projections elsewhere. The world peak remains a projection, not an arrival date.