Un World Population Prospects 2024. As of 2024, population size has peaked in 63 countries and areas, including china, germany, japan and the russian federation, and the total population of this group is projected to. The un department of economic and social affairs (desa) published a 2024 revision of ‘world population prospects,’ which presents the latest global population estimates and projections.
The estimates are based on all available. In its 2022 publication, the un estimated that, in its medium scenario, the global population would peak in 2086 at around 10.4 billion people.