World Population 2024 In Billion By Country. According to the united nations' world population prospects 2022 report, the global population in 2050 is expected to reach around 9.7 billion people, nearly 2 billion more. 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.

• in 63 countries and areas, containing 28 per cent of the world’s population in 2024, the. In just 48 years, the world population has doubled in size, jumping from four to eight billion.