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.
United States Population (1950 - 2017) Yearly Population Growth Rate (%) The current population of the United States of America is 326,002,603 as of Thursday, April 20, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates. the United States population is equivalent to 4.34% of the total world population. the U.S.A. ranks number 3 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.