Overview
This year’s World Population Day, which is observed on 11 July each year, will be marked in anticipation of a landmark growth of the global population, which is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022.
This year’s World Population Day, which is observed on 11 July each year, will be marked in anticipation of a landmark growth of the global population, which is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022.
World Population Prospects 2022 is the twenty-seventh edition of the official United Nations population estimates and projections. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present for 237 countries or areas, underpinned by analyses of historical demographic trends.
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) created the Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment in February 2021. |
The Population Division, in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), organized a regional workshop for Anglophone countries in sub-Saharan Africa to improve national capacity in population projections. The workshop was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 7 to 11 March 2016.