2024 World Population Growth Projections. With a population estimated at 1.44 billion, in 2023 india became the world’s most populous country,. In the chart, i’ve shown a range of these historical revisions, with their projections for the world population between 1970 and 2020.

Methodology of the united nations population estimates and projections (un desa/pop/2024/dc/no. The summary of results, which accompanies the 2024 revision of the world population prospects, includes several examples and illustrations of this decomposition by demographic.