Current World Population 2024 By Race. The 2024 world population data sheet provides the latest population, health, and environment indicators for more than 200 countries and territories, each carefully researched by prb’s expert team of demographers and analysts. To learn more about world population projections, go to notes on the world population.

Population by country, available from 10,000 bce to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources. The majority of the world’s population lives in asia, with china and india being the world’s most populous countries, accounting for over 2.8 billion of the planet’s total population.