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Population

Headcount since 1960. World 3→8bn; Poland no longer grows on births alone.

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Peoplepopulation

The file

One long file: year × country × headcount. This copy has Poland, Germany, the United States, and the world from 1960. Source and licence sit on the same JSON.

The indicator

SP.POP.TOTL is a mid-year stock, not a growth rate. For pace open Population growth; for family and cities see Fertility and Urban population.

What the numbers show

The world went from ~3.0bn to ~8.2bn. Poland 29.6m → 36.4m, but the stock is no longer rising on births alone. The US still grows (181m → 342m). Read with Net migration.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Population”. World Bank Open Data (SP.POP.TOTL), 1960–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/world-population/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
World20258.2B
India20251.5B
China20251.4B
United States2025341.8M
Brazil2025212.8M
Japan2025123.4M
Germany202583.5M
United Kingdom202569.5M
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
France202568.7M
Italy202558.9M
Spain202549.4M
Poland202536.4M
Netherlands202518.1M
Czechia202510.9M
Sweden202510.6M

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