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In 2025 the world population rose to an estimated around **** billion people. In 2022 the world reached the threshold of around billion inhabitants for the first time. Since 1950 the global population has therefore more than **. This statistic shows the development of the world population from 1950 to 2025.

How large was the world population in 1980?

In 1980 about **** billion people lived on Earth. Over the past 40 years the world population has grown by roughly *** billion people, and global population growth remains positive, though not on every continent.

On which continent do most people live

With regard to population by continent, the majority of the world's people—around **** billion—live in Asia (2025).
The population trend is positive for all continents except one. Population change results from the balance of birth and death rates.
While the natural population change in the countries of the EU and the euro area is negative, the balance of birth and death rates is consistently positive when looking at the world population as a whole. In other words, more people are born worldwide than die in the same period.