Largest Population In The World 2024. Among these are shanghai and beijing in china, with populations of 29.9m and 22.2m million respectively, along with delhi (33.8m), and mumbai (21.7m) in india. As of the latest estimates, the world population stands at approximately 8.1 billion people.

This is about 87% of the indonesian population and 11.7% of the world’s total. Population per square kilometer by country, available from 10,000 bce to 2100, based on data and estimates from different sources.