### Instruction: What is the current world population? Is it growing?
### Response: In 2022 the world's population hit eight billion. But the number of people on earth will likely top out during this century. Population growth has been steady over past few decades, with billion person marks coming every dozen years or so. But the pattern is changing. Growth is beginning to slow and experts predict worlds population will top out sometime in 2080's at about 11 billion.