How many people are on planet earth?

Overpopulation. It is a word that makes politicians wince, and is often described as the "elephant in the room" in discussions about the future of the planet. You often hear people citing overpopulation as the single biggest threat to the Earth. But can we really single out population growth in this way? read more

World population is expected to reach 8 billion people in 2023 according to the United Nations (in 2026 according to the U.S. Census Bureau). read more

Most population experts think planet Earth can support about 10 billion people, and that when our population reaches that number, it will start to decline. This will likely happen by the year 2100. read more

Just 10,000 years ago there might have been no more than a few million people on the planet. The one billion mark was not passed until the early 1800s; the two billion mark not until the 1920s. As it stands now, though, the world's population is over 7.3 billion. read more

In a 2014 study, Bradshaw concluded that if two billion people died tomorrow – or if every government adopted controversial fertility policies such as China's recently-ended one-child policy – there would still be as many if not more people on the planet by 2100 as there are today. read more

The planet earth can only hold so many people. Currently we have 7,056,000,000 and keeps on going up by the second. If we dont do anything to stop world population from growing then we will eventually run into many problems in the future at some point. read more

World population is expected to reach 8 billion people in 2023 according to the United Nations (in 2026 according to the U.S. Census Bureau). 7.6 Billion (2018) The current world population is 7.6 billion as of June 2018 according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometers. read more