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 ...