As of today Oct. 31, 2011, the UN estimates world’s population will reach seven billion. According to the UN, the rapid population growth mostly happens in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Particularly, modernization enables Chinese and Indians to live longer and to lower the infant death rates. Not only is the world’s population growing dramatically, but also the speed of growth is getting faster than ever. The articles points out that the global population was only one billion in 1804, but better health care and the development of medicine result in higher life expectancy. Therefore, it took only two centuries in order to multiply the global population seven times. It is still hard to predict, but the UN forecasts the world population could reach 10 billion by 2100.
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Thanks for sharing. I found out that I was the 4,876,020,757th person alive on Earth and the 79,706,459,757th person to have lived since history began. This is cool. How about you? Do you think you can guess my birth date from the statistic? :)
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Challenge yourself! :) Have fun!
intriguing. i think that all governments have a responsibility to control their population.
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