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World population

Observed

Total population, counting all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship, at mid-year.

Ingestedfrom World BankfreshJSON export
Current value, World
8.22Bpeople
period 2025
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2025
Unit
people
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1-year change+74.53Mcontextual+0.92%2024 to 2025from 8.14B to 8.22B people
10-year trend+0.99% per yearcontextual+10.41%2015 to 2025compound annual growth rate; total +774.34M people, from 7.44B to 8.22B people
Historical series

World population, World

Observed
2B4B6B8B10B19601970198019902000201020202025PEOPLE8.22B
66 observations, 1960 to 2025latest point emphasised
Data table (66 rows)
World population, World: 66 observations from 1960 to 2025, values from 3.02B to 8.22B people. Latest 8.22B people in 2025. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (people)Source revisionIngested at
20258,215,424,8932026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20248,140,897,5232026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20238,062,923,4172026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20227,988,550,2012026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20217,919,567,9952026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20207,853,863,1392026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20197,777,162,4762026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20187,696,159,7282026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20177,613,788,6552026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20167,528,221,5792026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20157,441,084,7712026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20147,353,532,2232026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20137,265,404,7372026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20127,176,482,1652026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20117,086,704,1412026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20107,000,860,0732026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20096,916,168,1962026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20086,830,080,8672026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20076,744,049,4982026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20066,659,536,0212026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20056,575,410,0292026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20046,492,354,6272026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20036,409,352,3862026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20026,327,171,2552026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20016,244,739,6682026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20006,161,528,4962026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19996,078,069,8222026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19985,993,730,7862026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19975,908,180,3222026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19965,822,327,9032026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19955,736,205,1352026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19945,650,534,4212026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19935,564,459,1422026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19925,476,822,9302026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19915,388,203,3052026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19905,298,962,0182026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19895,207,378,3742026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19885,116,898,8102026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19875,026,770,3852026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19864,937,459,9512026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19854,850,494,2382026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19844,765,813,2062026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19834,682,734,7142026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19824,599,385,8512026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19814,516,792,5872026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19804,437,473,4062026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19794,359,930,8962026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19784,283,309,3962026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19774,208,840,8942026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19764,135,644,2312026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19754,061,959,9452026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19743,987,186,7722026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19733,910,964,2192026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19723,834,345,1912026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19713,758,515,3962026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19703,680,493,7502026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19693,604,694,1542026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19683,530,576,8582026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19673,458,932,2302026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19663,389,042,1652026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19653,318,979,3392026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19643,251,249,1702026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19633,184,063,0492026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19623,117,372,1872026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19613,062,768,1162026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19603,021,512,5982026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
264 geographies have observations for this metric
World Bank, World Development Indicators, series SP.POP.TOTL
Definition

What this measures

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. Values are midyear estimates. The World Bank compiles the series from the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, national statistical offices, and census reports. Population is neither good nor bad in itself; it is the denominator for most per-person metrics on this site.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
world, regions, countries
Slug
world-population
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Series ID
SP.POP.TOTLlast fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-13(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
Parser version
world-bank-v2/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
Census-based with intercensal estimates. Recent years are projections revised when new census data arrive.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 20,000,000,000 people.
66 periods with values for this geography, 1960 to 2025.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2025) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (people)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-138,215,424,8932026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.