World Population 2024 By Country. To learn more about world population projections, go to notes on the. Population by country, available from 10,000 bce to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.

India is the most populous country in the world, with close to 1.451 billion people as of 1 july 2024. Closely following is china, with 1.425 billion residents, evidencing the massive.