What is the population of the world?

What about the country with the largest population? The most populous cities or states? Find the population of all these regions throughout the world and more. The populations are broken down by country, state, and city. You can view maps of all populations in any one of these categories or find any population within a list (which also links to the individual map of the area’s population). Data is available for the current world population, US population, country populations, US states population, city populations. Also view each location’s rank, flag, and percentage of world population.

The population of the world is currently: 6,923,880,234 people
The population of the United States is currently: 311,523,502 people

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Census: Detroit population loss slows, some suburbs see growth
Detroit's rate of population loss slowed last year, barely keeping the state's largest city above 700,000 people, according to Census estimates released today that also show some growth in the suburbs.

Population down in most of metro-east's largest cities
Four of the five largest cities in the metro-east have seen their populations drop since 2010, accor

Karnataka adds 82.4 lakh people to its population in 10 years
During the decade 2001-11, Karnataka population has witnessed a net addition of 82.44 lakh persons (82,44,735) to its 2001 population of 5.28 crore (5,28,50,562).

Pittsburgh population moves upward — by 152
Pittsburgh's population grows a tad according to 2012 estimates, while some northern and western suburbs see an influx of residents.

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Lists of additional country-specific information such as country codes and area codes can be found at these locations. If you’re looking for more detailed maps within individual US states like, for instance, Clinton Township in Lenawee County in Michigan, you can perform a search for any township on this state townships page, which also gives the counties of the districts.

Definition: population (pop·u·la·tion) The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.. The current world population, according to the United States Census Bureau, is estimated to be around 6.9 billion.