The World Counts (2024)

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These counters are based on various point estimates and projections, and may therefore not represent scientifically accurate numbers. Some counters are more accurate than others, but all counters are included to highlight important concerns and not to describe exact scientific estimates.

TheWorldCounts is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The site is being run and continuously updated by Esben Larsen and Karsten Bjerring Olsen. We work on bringing you the latest and most accurate live statistics on the state of the planet.

The current world population is 8,105,268,347 as of Thursday, April 25, 2024 according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometer. The term "World Population" refers to the human population (the total number of humans currently living) of the world.

99.999 per cent of the world's population are breathing unsafe air. Practically nowhere on earth is safe from toxic air pollution, a new study has revealed. According to Australian research, just 0.18 per cent of global land area is free from dangerous Particulate Matter (PM2.

The "100 seconds to midnight" setting remained unchanged in 2021 and 2022. On January 24, 2023, the Clock was moved to 90 seconds (1 minute, 30 seconds) before midnight, the closest it has ever been set to midnight since its inception in 1947.

As of 2022, an estimated total of 109 billion humans have died, or roughly 93.8% of all humans to ever live. A substudy of gerontology known as biogerontology seeks to eliminate death by natural aging in humans, often through the application of natural processes found in certain organisms.

Worldometer - real time world statistics. reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022 according to the latest United Nations estimates.

With this context and timeframe in mind, the demographers estimate that 109 billion people have lived and died over the course of 192,000 years. If we add the number of people alive today, we get 117 billion humans that have ever lived.

The worlds population is about 7.8 billion people. So 10 % is 780 million people and 1 % is 78 Million people. Times two is 156 million people.

As of January 2024, there were about 5 billion global Internet users, constituting 66% of the world population. The Han Chinese are the world's largest single ethnic group, constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011.

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Hominins first appear by around 6 million years ago, in the Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago. Our evolutionary path takes us through the Pliocene, the Pleistocene, and finally into the Holocene, starting about 12,000 years ago. The Anthropocene would follow the Holocene.

The orbit of a black hole would have to be very close to the solar system to affect Earth, which is not likely,” NASA explained. Even the most massive black holes that are directly facing Earth aren't a threat, even though they are much larger than the sun and extremely powerful.

New study shows Earth may be past the 'safe operating space' for humanity. The planetary boundaries theory — the concept that the Earth has an operating system that is being destabilized by humanity, which is endangering the planet's habitability — has been updated in a new study published in Science Advances.

Increases in the concentrations of greenhouse gases, from burning fossil fuels, has caused cascading changes to many of Earth's vital life-supporting systems. Learn how federal data are being used to shed light on the sources and hotspots of GHG emissions and to understand the associated impacts on the climate.

Assuming a constant growth rate and birth rates of 80 per 1000 through 1 A.D., 60 per 1000 from 2 A.D. to 1750, and the low 30s per 1000 by modern times, 105 billion people have lived on earth, of whom 5.5% are alive today.

Approximately 70,000,000 is one percent of the world's population. To estimate the number of the resident population in a certain territory, governments conduct censuses. The term "population" is frequently used to describe the total number of people living in a certain location.