Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it A) extremely comforting that we're so close, and B) like Chinese water torture that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection...
7.5 Billion (2017) The current world population is 7.5 billion as of March 2017 according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometers. The term World Population refers to the human population (the total number of humans currently living) of the world.
The latest predictions for population growth from the United Nations indicate the Earth will be more crowded than previously thought. The global population is currently about 7.3 billion. The UN estimates that by 2050, that number will grow to 9.7 billion.