The population is still growing (thanks to "momentum"—lots of young people entering reproductive age), but the rate of growth has been falling for 50 years. We will likely peak around 10.4 billion by 2080, then plateau or decline.
The story of human population growth is defined by three major "revolutions" that lowered death rates and allowed more people to survive to reproductive age: 8.1 trends in human population growth
If you plot human population over the last 2000 years, it looks like a vertical wall. But if you plot the rate of growth , it looks like a mountain peak—rising sharply in 1960s, then falling just as sharply today. The population is still growing (thanks to "momentum"—lots