World Population In 2024. Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world's population living on less than $5 per day, by region how do un population projections compare to the previous. The world population is getting older, and the trend could lead to declining stock returns and weaker earnings growth, jpmorgan strategists say.
Chart and table of world population from 1950 to 2024. The majority of the world’s population lives in asia, with china and india being the world’s most populous countries, accounting for over 2.8 billion of the planet’s total.