World Population 2024 Ranking World. In 2024, the world reached a total population of 8,161,972,572 and 🇮🇳 india was the most populous country that year, with a total of 1,450,935,791 people. The world population is projected to peak slightly earlier than in previous projections.
235 rows list of countries and dependencies in the world ranked by population, from the most populated. The united nations doesn’t only publish historical estimates of how population and.