![]() The global population is still increasing, but there is significant uncertainty about its long-term trajectory due to changing fertility and mortality rates. The growth rate declined to 1.1% between 20 and is projected to decline further in the 21st century. The highest global population growth rates, with increases of over 1.8% per year, occurred between 19, peaking at 2.1% between 19. The human population has experienced continuous growth following the Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the end of the Black Death in 1350, when it was nearly 370,000,000. It took over 200,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach one billion and only 219 years more to reach 8 billion. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. ![]() In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. See also: Demographics of the world World population growth from 10,000 BCE to 2021 High, medium, and low projections of the future human world population
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