2024 World Population Growth

2024 World Population Growth. Projections show that those 65 and older will outnumber children younger than 18 by 2080. Current population growth is driven in large part by advances in medicine, which are increasing life expectancy;

This latest assessment considers the results of 1,910 national population censuses conducted between 1950 and 2023, as well as information from vital registration systems and from 3,189. But after a period of very fast population growth, demographers expect the world population to peak by the end of this century.