World Population To Reach 10.3 Billion In 2080s: UN Report

The world's population is expected to reach a peak of around 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s, up from 8.2 billion in 2024. The United Nations mentioned this data in the recently released World Population Prospects 2024. The report also said that after peaking, the global population is projected to start declining gradually, falling to 10.2 billion people by the end of the century.

According to the twenty-eighth edition of World Population Prospects 2024, the estimated likelihood that the world’s population will peak within the current century is very high—about 80%. Notably, the size of the world’s population in 2100 is now expected to be 6% smaller, or about 700 million people fewer than anticipated a decade ago. In 48 countries and areas, representing 10% of the world’s population in 2024, the size of the population is projected to peak between 2025 and 2054. This group includes Brazil, Iran, Turkey, and Vietnam.

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The world’s population is projected to peak in the mid-2080s, increasing from 8.2 billion people in 2024 to approximately 10.3 billion before it begins to decline.

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"This represents a major change compared to projections produced by the United Nations a decade ago, when the estimated probability that global population growth would end during the twenty-first century was around 30 per cent," the report added. At the same time, the number of persons aged 65 and higher globally is likely to reach 2.2 billion by the late 2070s, surpassing the number of children under the age of 18.