The World Counts (2024)

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We do not produce any original information but rely on data from a large number of organizations, research institutions, news services etc. We aim to use data from respected and well known organizations. But we also use data from a large number of smaller organizations, blogs etc.

The World Counts illustrates negative trends using live counters related to: The environment. Energy & climate. Your health.

TheWorldCounts is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The site is being run and continuously updated by Esben Larsen and Karsten Bjerring Olsen. We work on bringing you the latest and most accurate live statistics on the state of the planet.

Our World in Data has been cited in academic scientific journals, medicine and global health journals, and social science journals. The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Economist have used Our World in Data as a source.

The current world population is 8,114,693,010 as of Tuesday, June 11, 2024 according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometer. The term "World Population" refers to the human population (the total number of humans currently living) of the world.

But in the far future, the Sun's energy will be enough to do it, and on a global scale. After 1-2 billion years of further solar evolution, Earth will lose all of its liquid water to the gaseous phase, triggering a runaway greenhouse effect, and life is expected to end on our world at that time.

The "100 seconds to midnight" setting remained unchanged in 2021 and 2022. On January 24, 2023, the Clock was moved to 90 seconds (1 minute, 30 seconds) before midnight, the closest it has ever been set to midnight since its inception in 1947.

Four billion years from now, the increase in Earth's surface temperature will cause a runaway greenhouse effect, creating conditions more extreme than present-day Venus and heating Earth's surface enough to melt it. By that point, all life on Earth will be extinct.

World Population:

reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022 according to the latest United Nations estimates.

What we do know is that if nothing else causes the end of the world, planet Earth will come to its end when the Sun dies in about 7.5 billion years. At that time the Sun is on course to swell into a huge red giant that will consume the inner planets, including Earth.

How long does planet Earth have left? ›

So how long does Earth have until the planet is swallowed by the sun? Expected time of death: several billion years from now. But life on Earth will end much, much sooner than that. Earth will become unlivable for most organisms in about 1.3 billion years due to the sun's natural evolution, experts told Live Science.

There are many ways to save our planet including conserving water, reducing our use of oil and embracing green energy, reducing waste and single-use plastics and planting more trees. If you're looking for small ways that you can make a difference, search online for ideas of how to get started.

Every year we extract almost 90 billion tons of biomass, fossil energy, metal and minerals from the earth - more than 11 tons for every single person on the planet.