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The World's Population At Eight Billion, Visualized

The World's Population At Eight Billion, Visualized
Here's how the global population is distributed, now that we've reached eight billion people.
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At the end of 2022, the global population reached a whopping eight billion. But what does that actually look like?

Visual Capitalist created the below visualization to show how the world's eight billion people will be distributed now that we've reached that milestone.


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The graph below illustrates the growth of the world's population since 1950, as well as predictions for when it will reach as high as ten billion people.




Via Visual Capitalist.

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