Here are The MOST INTERESTING current WORLD POPULATION statistics! The MOST INTERESTING current 🌎 WORLD POPULATION statistics! 🌎   What is the current world population? On November 15, 2022, the global population surpassed 8 billion. Today, January 7, 2023, the world population is approximately more than 8,009,600,000. People who currently inhabit the planet represent nearly 7% of all humans who have ever existed. It has been estimated that a total of roughly 117 billion people have been born throughout history. 90% of the world's population resides in the Northern Hemisphere 60% of the world's population live in Asia. About 36% of the world's population resides in the two most populous countries, China and India. The top 5 most populous countries are: 1  China: 2  India: 3  U.S.A.: 4  Indonesia 5  Pakistan It took more than 200,000 years for the population to reach one billion, and just 219 years more for it to reach eight billion. Whereas it had taken all of human hist