Discover some information and curiosities regarding the world population and see how the world is today.
First of all, we know that due to the policies and changes in the history of each country, drastic changes can happen. With populations that increase significantly or decrease in the same proportion.
Nations once seen as backward and agrarian have recently lifted millions of people out of the poverty line in a short time.
Similarly, the economically dominant countries have a fair number of people in a precarious state.
Based on these data on the population and all its peculiarities, the numbers are reflected in geopolitical changes on the entire world stage.
However, one of the nations that stands out the most about its population is undoubtedly China.
As the most populous country in the world, it contains 1,447,993,598 million inhabitants by 2022.
Even so, he was responsible for ending the 70% of world poverty, but his politics work from five-year plans.
That is, the priorities for the period are decided every 5 years.
Through measures such as increasing the supply of food, providing credit to the poorest, building infrastructure and technology for the countryside.
And in addition, all social actions, the Chinese Communist Party was responsible for lifting more than 850 million people out of poverty.
All this in the period from 1980 to 2020, that is, only 40 years.
Hong Kong has a very high population density, there are 6,300 people per km2.
We know that among all this population there are numerous millionaires, bankers and other personalities in this area of finance.
But what is not widely publicized is that Hong Kong has millions of people living below the poverty line.
In this way, most of these people live in small places, sometimes not having even five square meters.
Meanwhile, the ruling classes reside in luxurious apartments with more than 80m2.
We may think that no other country can contain more people than China, but we are wrong.
The World Bank has indicated that India should surpass the Chinese population from that year 2022.
Just as India already has second place in the ranking of the most populous nation in the world with 1,409,195.05 inhabitants in 2022.
All indications are that this will happen due to a large decline in the birth rate in China since the 1970s.
On the other hand, the third largest population in the world is found in the United States, which contains more than 332,403,650 inhabitants.
The country has 37 million citizens in the poverty line.
Finally, according to Our World In Data, since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, it has caused more than 5.6 million deaths worldwide.
The United States and Brazil had the highest number of deaths in the world, 866 and 623,000.
The slowdown in the growth rate of the world population It has been happening since the number of births is decreasing every day all over the world.