World human population | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:32 1 Population by region
00:03:01 1.1 Population by continent
00:03:11 2 History
00:04:10 2.1 Ancient and Post-classical history
00:07:51 2.2 Modern history
00:11:01 2.3 Milestones by the billions
00:13:28 3 Global demographics
00:16:20 4 Largest populations by country
00:16:31 4.1 10 most populous countries
00:16:52 4.2 Most densely populated countries
00:17:12 5 Fluctuation
00:19:57 5.1 Population growth by region
00:20:18 5.2 Past population
00:21:14 5.3 Projections
00:23:18 6 Mathematical approximations
00:25:19 6.1 Years for world population to double
00:25:23 7 Overpopulation
00:25:34 7.1 Predictions of scarcity
00:26:07 7.2 Environmental impacts
00:26:17 7.3 Population control
00:26:31 8 Number of humans who have ever lived
00:30:18 9 See also
00:32:28 10 Notes
00:33:52 11 References
00:36:01 12 External links



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In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.7 billion people as of April 2019. It took over 200,000 years of human history for the world's population to reach 1 billion; and only 200 years more to reach 7 billion.World population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the Black Death in 1350, when it was near 370 million.
The highest population growth rates – global population increases above 1.8% per year – occurred between 1955 and 1975, peaking to 2.1% between 1965 and 1970. The growth rate has declined to 1.2% between 2010 and 2015 and is projected to decline further in the course of the 21st century. However, the global population is still growing and is projected to reach about 10 billion in 2050 and more than 11 billion in 2100.Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 139 million, and as of 2011 were expected to remain essentially constant at a level of 135 million, while deaths numbered 56 million per year and were expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040.
The median age of the world's population was estimated to be 30.4 years in 2018.