World population is continually growing. In particular in developing countries of Africa and Asia the excess of birth is over 2%. We only show actual numbers in this counter. The estimated situation in 20 years is documented on the future part of the population page (population 2).

actual population of the world
population in industrial and developing countries
population by continents
some selected countries
excess of birth

Humans live distributed on five continents. Europe, North America, the former Sovietunion and some pacific countries (Australia, Japan, etc.) are counted as industrial countries. Based on this definition, people are distributed as follows:

The population by continents (Oceanic countries like Australia New Zealand, etc. are separated):

The following counters represent the population numbers of some selected countries. In particular China and India have very high excesses of birth. The highest percent growth is found for african countries.

The excess of birth is the difference between the birthrate and the deathrate. A high excess of birth means a high growth of the population. This is in particular true for african countries. In Europe the deathrate sometimes is higher than the birthrate and the population number is decreasing.

The highest excess of birth is found in
Gaza: 4.6 percent
Comores: 3.6 percent
Libya: 3.6 percent
six other countries have also an excess of birth of more than 3.3 percent.

The highest decreas is found in:
Latvia: -0.7 percent
Ukraina: -0.6 percent
Bulgaria: -0.5 percent