World population
8 billion
people, worldwide
“On 15 November 2022, the world's population reached 8 billion people, a milestone in human development.”
United Nations, Global Issues: Population, 2022-11-15
- Kind of source
- Registry or statistics office
- Read on
- 2026-11-06
- Daily check
- Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
- What to know
- The denominator for turning a worldwide count of people with a condition into a rate per 10,000 people. The UN's own milestone figure; later UN estimates are slightly higher, which makes rates computed with it slightly high.
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.