Largest Population In The World 2024 Wikipedia. The world population passed eight billion people in november 2022, a figure that is expected to reach nine billion within 2040. Among these are shanghai and beijing in china, with populations of 29.9m and 22.2m million respectively, along with delhi (33.8m), and mumbai (21.7m) in india.
Chart and table of world population from 1950 to 2024. The 2024 population density in the world is 55 people per km 2 (142 people per mi 2), calculated on a total land area of 148,940,000 km2 (57,506,032 sq.