Why it is not an exact count
No real-time global register exists. The UN combines censuses, civil registration, surveys and demographic data from individual countries.
Current world population
How many people live on Earth right now, how the population has changed, and what the displayed calculation is based on.
Continuous calculation
WORLDPopulation change today
211,764children born today
101,703people who died today
110,060population growth today
What this number means
World population is the estimated number of people living on Earth at a given moment.
How Metrilum calculates it
We start with the latest published UN medium projection for 2026 and advance it between reference points using the expected difference between births and deaths.
What one number cannot show
The global total does not reveal where people live, how old they are or how differently national populations are changing.
Population over time
UN estimates and the medium projection show long-term growth and its expected slowdown. Historical estimates may be revised when new censuses, registers and national data become available.
Estimate and projection boundary: 1950–2023 are UN historical estimates. Values from 2024 to 2100 are the medium projection.
YearPopulationType
19502,493,092,852estimate
19754,070,735,279estimate
20006,171,702,992estimate
20258,231,613,067projection
20509,664,378,585projection
210010,180,160,744projection
How the number is calculated
The counter advances a published reference value using the annual net change.
Formula used
P(t) = P₀ + ΔP × tReference value8,300,678,396as of 1 July 2026
Annual net change+68,866,160people per year
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuous calculation
Reference point
The calculation starts from the latest published value and its reference date.
Change over time
A proportional part of annual net change is added as time passes.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
We use World Population Prospects 2024, the latest global UN revision available when checked on 11 August 2026. The series contains historical estimates through 2023 and a medium projection from 2024; the running calculation uses the latest published value from that projection.
Latest published and verified source value
- Publisher
- UN Population Division
- Series
- Medium projection
- Reference date
- 1 July 2026
- Checked
- 11 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Time coverage
- 1950–2100