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[[File:Annual-World-Population-since-10-thousand-BCE-1-768x724.png|alt=World population growth from 10,000 BCE to 2023|thumb|World population growth from 10,000 BCE to 2023<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth|title=Population Growth|first1=Hannah|last1=Ritchie|first2=Lucas|last2=Rodés-Guirao|first3=Edouard|last3=Mathieu|first4=Marcel|last4=Gerber|first5=Esteban|last5=Ortiz-Ospina|first6=Joe|last6=Hasell|first7=Max|last7=Roser|date=11 July 2023|journal=Our World in Data|via=ourworldindata.org}}</ref>]]
[[File:World Population Prospects.svg|thumb|High, medium, and low projections of the future human world population<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=World Population Prospects 2022
In [[demographics of the world|world demographics]], the '''world population''' is the total number of [[human]]s currently living. It was estimated by the [[United Nations]] to have exceeded eight billion in mid-[[2022#November|November 2022]]. It took around 300,000 years of human [[prehistory]] and [[human history|history]] for the human population to reach [[1,000,000,000|one billion]] and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last1=Kight |first1=Stef W. |last2=Lysik |first2=Tory |date=14 November 2022 |title=The human race at 8 billion |url=https://www.axios.com/2022/11/14/global-population-8-billion-data-world-humans-un |access-date=15 November 2022 |website=[[Axios (website)|Axios]] |language=en}}</ref>
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==Population by region==
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Six of the Earth's seven [[continent]]s are permanently inhabited on a large scale. Asia is the most populous continent, with its 4.64 billion inhabitants accounting for 60% of the world population. The world's two most populated countries, India and China, together constitute about 36% of the world's population.
Africa is the second most populated continent, with around 1.34 billion people, or 17% of the world's population.
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[[File:People's -Km² for all countries (and us states, uk kingdoms).png|thumb|upright=2.05|right|300px| [[w:Choropleth|choropleth]] showing [[w:Population density|Population density]] (people per square kilometre) by country or [[U.S. state]] in 2019]]
[[File:Top 5 Country Population Graph 1901 to 2021.svg|thumb|right|300px|1901 to 2021 population graph of the five countries with the highest current populations]]
===Ten most populous countries===
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