World Population 2024 In Billion. The report forecasts that the world’s population will continue to swell over the next several decades — growing from 8.2 billion people in 2024 to a peak of nearly 10.3 billion people in 50 to. One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size.

• the road to 10 billion: Methodology of the united nations population estimates and projections (un desa/pop/2024/dc/no.