<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> An editor has expressed concern that this article may have a number of irrelevant citations . Please help improve this article by verifying these references and challenge any that are not reliable or do not support the article . (March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> An editor has expressed concern that this article may have a number of irrelevant citations . Please help improve this article by verifying these references and challenge any that are not reliable or do not support the article . (March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.6 billion people as of May 2018 . </P> <P> World population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine of 1315--17 and the Black Death in 1350, when it was near 370 million . The highest population growth rates--global population increases above 1.8% per year--occurred between 1955 and 1975, peaking to 2.06% between 1965 and 1970 . The growth rate has declined to 1.18% between 2010 and 2015 and is projected to decline further in the course of the 21st century . </P>

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