The current world population is around 7.6 billion as of June 2018, according to the most recent United Nations estimates.
It’s estimated that over 110 billion people have lived throughout history. That means that approximately only 6.9% of all the people that have ever lived are alive right now.
The population of our world grows by about 80 million people a year.
Do we really have too many people in the world? Standing side by side, the entire world’s population would fit into 500 square miles, which is less than the size of the city of Los Angeles.
It’s estimated that every second there are approximately 4 births and 2 deaths, which adds up to a net population gain of 2 people per second.
36 of the 40 poorest, and hungriest, countries in the world actually export food to wealthier nations. “What?” you might say. Well, this can be explained by greedy dictators and other hapless governments who aren’t really concerned whether their people starve or not.
Across the globe today, 1 out of 3 children under the age of 5, about 230 million, have never been officially registered. As of 2012, only about 60% of all babies born were ever documented, with the lowest levels belonging to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
2.4 billion people in our world, or 1 out of 3, don’t have any access to a toilet.
It is predicted, that by 2024, India will overtake China as the most populous country.
Nigeria is the fastest growing country, percentage-wise.
China and India combine to represent over a third (36%) of the Earth’s population!
Although Bangladesh has 23 million more people than Russia, Russia is 125 times the size of Bangladesh geographically!
Although China and India are fairly close in size, population-wise, China is geographically about 3 times the size of India!
Here’s a list of countries by population, along with populations of some U.S states and cities for reference:
# Country Population
1 China 1,415,045,928
2 India 1,354,051,854
3 United States 326,766,748
4 Indonesia 266,794,980
5 Brazil 210,867,954
6 Pakistan 200,813,818
7 Nigeria 195,875,237
8 Bangladesh 166,368,149
9 Russia 143,964,709
10 Mexico 130,759,074
11 Japan 127,185,332
12 Ethiopia 107,534,882
13 Philippines 106,512,074
14 Egypt 99,375,741
15 Viet Nam 96,491,146
16 Congo 84,004,989
17 Germany 82,293,457
18 Iran 82,011,735
19 Turkey 81,916,871
20 Thailand 69,183,173
21 United Kingdom 66,573,504
22 France 65,233,271
23 Italy 59,290,969
24 Tanzania 59,091,392
25 South Africa 57,398,421
27 South Korea 51,164,435
28 Kenya 50,950,879
29 Colombia 49,464,683
30 Spain 46,397,452
31 Argentina 44,688,864
32 Uganda 44,270,563
33 Ukraine 44,009,214
34 Algeria 42,008,054
35 Sudan 41,511,526
36 Iraq 39,339,753
— State of California 39,536,653
37 Poland 38,104,832
38 Canada 36,953,765
39 Afghanistan 36,373,176
40 Morocco 36,191,805
41 Saudi Arabia 33,554,343
42 Peru 32,551,815
43 Venezuela 32,381,221
48 Nepal 29,624,035
49 Ghana 29,463,643
50 Yemen 28,915,284
— State of Texas 28,304,596
51 Madagascar 26,262,810
52 North Korea 25,610,672
54 Australia 24,772,247
56 Taiwan 23,694,089
57 Niger 22,311,375
— State of Florida 20,984,400
58 Sri Lanka 20,950,041
60 Romania 19,580,634
63 Kazakhstan 18,403,860
64 Syria 18,284,407
65 Chile 18,197,209
67 Guatemala 17,245,346
68 Netherlands 17,084,459
69 Zimbabwe 16,913,261
70 Ecuador 16,863,425
72 Cambodia 16,245,729
74 Somalia 15,181,925
78 Tunisia 11,659,174
79 Belgium 11,498,519
80 Cuba 11,489,082
84 Greece 11,142,161
85 Haiti 11,112,945
86 Dominican Republic 10,882,996
87 Czech Republic 10,625,250
88 Portugal 10,291,196
89 Sweden 9,982,709
— State of Michigan 9,962,311
91 Jordan 9,903,802
92 Hungary 9,688,847
93 United Arab Emirates 9,541,615
95 Honduras 9,417,167
97 Serbia 8,762,027
98 Austria 8,751,820
— New York City 8,550,405
99 Switzerland 8,544,034
100 Israel 8,452,841
104 Hong Kong 7,428,887
105 Bulgaria 7,036,848
106 Laos 6,961,210
108 Libya 6,470,956
109 El Salvador 6,411,558
110 Nicaragua 6,284,757
111 Kyrgyzstan 6,132,932
— State of Missouri 6,113,532
112 Lebanon 6,093,509
114 Singapore 5,791,901
115 Denmark 5,754,356
116 Finland 5,542,517
117 Slovakia 5,449,816
118 Congo 5,399,895
119 Norway 5,353,363
121 State of Palestine 5,052,776
122 Costa Rica 4,953,199
125 Ireland 4,803,748
126 New Zealand 4,749,598
129 Kuwait 4,197,128
130 Croatia 4,164,783
131 Panama 4,162,618
— City of Los Angeles 3,971, 883
133 Georgia 3,907,131
134 Puerto Rico 3,659,007
135 Bosnia & Herzegovina 3,503,554
137 Mongolia 3,121,772
— State of Arkansas 3,004,279
139 Armenia 2,934,152
140 Jamaica 2,898,677
— City of Chicago 2,720,546
142 Qatar 2,694,849
152 Bahrain 1,566,993
— State of Montana 1,050,493
161 Fiji 912,241
168 Solomon Islands 623,281
169 Luxembourg 590,321
177 Bahamas 399,285
179 Belize 382,444
180 Iceland 337,780
— City of Pittsburgh 302,407
182 Barbados 286,388
188 Samoa 197,695
— City of Chattanooga 179,139
191 Guam 165,718
196 Grenada 108,339
198 Aruba 105,670
— City of Green Bay 105,116
199 U.S. Virgin Islands 104,914
205 Cayman Islands 62,348
206 Bermuda 61,070
207 Greenland 56,565
209 American Samoa 55,679
211 Marshall Islands 53,167
214 Monaco 38,897
215 Liechtenstein 38,155
216 Turks and Caicos 35,963
219 British Virgin Islands 31,719
228 Montserrat 5,203
230 Falkland Islands 2,922
232 Tokelau 1,319
233 Holy See (Vatican) 801
Now let’s see how people are moving around our planet.
The United States is the clear cut winner as far as immigrants go. How can anyone say that we do not allow enough immigrants into our country? And these are the immigrants that we know of! This doesn’t even count the hordes of undocumented immigrants into our country.
It is obvious too that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Iraq and Afghanistan are doing their parts to absorb the Syrian refugees in their region.
I was also surprised to learn that over a million people from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan emigrate to other countries on an annual basis.
Largest amount of Immigrants (+)
# Country Migrants (+/-)
3 United States +900,000
17 Germany +355,425
19 Turkey +325,434
41 Saudi Arabia +318,000
112 Lebanon +250,000
38 Canada +229,144
9 Russia +203,577
21 United Kingdom +198,000
91 Jordan +195,057
54 Australia +182,621
25 South Africa +161,300
129 Kuwait +134,000
142 Qatar +120,400
93 United Arab Emirates +96,000
36 Iraq +92,733
39 Afghanistan +89,601
99 Switzerland +79,453
22 France +72,344
11 Japan +71,627
Largest amount of Emigrants (-)
# Country Migrants (+/-)
64 Syria -831,579
2 India -515,643
8 Bangladesh -505,297
1 China -339,690
6 Pakistan -236,384
4 Indonesia -167,000
13 Philippines -130,000
35 Sudan -117,877
30 Spain -114,000
58 Sri Lanka -96,954
108 Libya -86,681
18 Iran -80,000
Mr. Erickson Rules! 
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