The population of the world - then, now, in the future
The world's population is growing and growing: which country is No 1? / © Brian Merrill, Pixabay
Background to the UN population projections
The UN publishes a new projection of the global population every two years, so the last publication was in 2022. You can read about the UN's methodology in its 2022 Methodology Report. The data now published is based on the reference year 2023. For Germany, the latest data from the census has not yet been taken into account, meaning that the assumed starting population is around 1.4 million people too high. / red
- Link to the UN's World Population Prospects 2024
- The key messages of the current survey can also be found in the attached pdf.