Archive · 24 Jul 2025
World Population Growth Slows, Highlighting Fastest Growing Nations
The world's population is still growing, but it's growing a bit slower than before.
In early 2025, there were over 8 billion people, and about 4 babies were born every second, while about 2 people died.
Experts think the total number of people on Earth will keep growing to about 10.3 billion in the future, but then start to get smaller.
Some countries are growing much faster than others, and the number of people living in a place changes because of births, deaths, people moving in, and people moving out.
Global population growth slowed to approximately 0.9% in 2024.
The world population reached over 8 billion as of early 2025.
The UN projects a peak global population of 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s.
Population growth is determined by birth rates, death rates, immigration, and emigration.
Several countries have high or low population growth rates.
- Who
- Countries with the fastest growing populations.
- What
- Population growth rates of various countries.
- When
- Data current as of early 2025.
- Where
- Worldwide, with a focus on countries with high growth.
- Why
- To highlight global population trends and country-specific growth rates.
- Global Population (early 2025)
- Over 8 billion
- Global Growth Rate (2024)
- Approximately 0.9%
- Projected Peak Population
- 10.3 billion
- Peak Population Timeframe
- Mid-2080s
- Tokelau Growth Rate
- 4.07%
- Oman Growth Rate
- 4.04%
- Syria Growth Rate
- 3.84%