World populationtotal number of living humans on Earth7 dated entries naming World population, drawn from 7 separate years between 1000 BCE and 1987 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.JSONWikipedia articleWikidata Q1118810th century BC1000 BCE1000 BC—World population: 50,000,000source2nd century200Human population reaches about 257 million.source19th century1804World population reaches 1 billion people.source1900World population: 1,640,000,000source20th century1955World population: 2,755,823,000source1960World population: 3,021,475,000source1987July 11 – World population is estimated to have reached five billion people, according to the United Nations.sourceNamed in the same entriesUnited Nations (1)