Data from the UN's December 2022 population estimates, along with summaries from the French Institute for Demographic Studies, has helped in visualising the changing world population by country below.
Around the world, 250 children are born per minute on average. This amounts to more than 130 million new individuals being born each year.
The world's population has more than tripled since the middle of the 20th century, reaching a staggering 8 billion people.
In order to depict the ...
