Next, we turned to the United Nations World Population Dashboard, where the international agency also reported that the total population in millions was 7,954,000,000 — or 7.9 billion and some ...

India passed China as the world's most-populous country back in 2023 and is on course to approach 1.7 billion people by 2050.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago ...

But over the same period, the world’s overall population also has risen rapidly. As a result, Catholics have made up a remarkably stable share of all people on Earth. In 1910, Catholics comprised ...