World population hit over 8 billion in July 2023
Cairo, July 12 (BNA): The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said the global population reached 8.05 billion on July 1, according to the United Nations’ estimates.
On the World Population Day, which falls on July 11, CAPMAS said in a statement that nearly 1.2 billion of the world population live in the most developed countries, while some 6.7 billion of population live in the least developed countries, the Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.
It is projected that the global population will reach 8.9 billion by mid 2035 and 9.7 billion by mid 2050.
