How does that number of people compare?

Eight billion is unimaginable. Divided by cities and countries, it starts to mean something.

Number of people Measured in

1.09 × Amsterdam

1,000,000 people is more than 4 of the 11 references on this page.

Reference figures are measurements and are rounded; the unit conversion behind them is exact.

Every reference on this page, with its size and its ratio to your number
Reference	Size	Yours ÷ theirs
a full football stadium	60,000 people	16.7×
Iceland	390,000 people	2.56×
Manchester	570,000 people	1.75×
Amsterdam	920,000 people	1.09×
New York City	8,300,000 people	0.12×
London	8,900,000 people	0.112×
Tokyo metropolitan area	37,000,000 people	1/37
United Kingdom	68,000,000 people	1/68
United States	335,000,000 people	1/335
India	1,430,000,000 people	1/1,430
the world	8,100,000,000 people	1/8,100

One in every eight people on Earth lives in either India or China; between them the two countries hold 36% of humanity.
The world population passed 8 billion in November 2022. It took 12 years to add the last billion and is projected to take 15 for the next.

Frequently asked

About 8.1 billion, growing by roughly 70 million a year — a rate that has been falling since its peak of 2.1% a year in 1968.

About 117 billion, by the Population Reference Bureau’s estimate. So roughly 7% of everyone who has ever lived is alive today.