The Earth and Its 8 Billion Inhabitants

World-population growth is actually under control. However, due to very-rapid population growth before 1960, a population-growth momentum was created in the long term.

The United Nations projected that on 15 November 2022, the world's population would amount to 8 billion people.

It took only 12 years (2010-2022) to increase by 1 billion people. Over the past 12 years, the world's population has increased by almost 3 people per second, more than 228,000 people per minute and 83 million people per year. In the past, it took 123 years (1804-1927) for the population to increase from 1 billion to 2 billion.