The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BCE, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before …

Population growth through history from 5000 BC to the current year (2025) for the entire population of the world

Nov 15, 2022 · The global population milestone of 8 billion people represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.

The speed of global population growth over the last few centuries has been staggering. For most of human history, the world population was well under one million.1 As recently as 12,000 years ago, …

Nov 28, 2025 · However, since the 1800s, a phenomenon known as the demographic transition has seen population growth skyrocket, reaching eight billion people in 2023, and this is expected to peak …

Jun 6, 2022 · The number of humans ever born is probably around 80 billion, though many died in infancy. Out of this total, almost half have been born in the last two millennia (since the year 1 AD). …

Dec 5, 2022 · Haub, Carl, 1995, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" Population Today, February, p. 5. McEvedy, Colin and Richard Jones, 1978, "Atlas of World Population History," Facts …

Today, almost 7 billion people live on our earth. Each year, the world’s population grows by about 80 million. If it continues to grow at such a rate the world’s population will reach 9 billion by the year …

Explore the evolution of the world’s population from 10,000 BC to 2100 with this detailed, data-rich historical timeline.

Since 1700, human population size (shaded in teal) has increased. It reached 1 billion in 1803, 2 billion in 1928, 2.5 billion in 1950, 5 billion in 1987, and 7.7 billion in 2019. It is projected to reach 10.9 …