6 billion humans and countingIn 2011, global population reached 7 billion mark. Today – October 12, 2015 – it stands at more than 7.3 billion, according to United Nations estimates.
October 12, 1999. On this date, the world’s human population was estimated to hit 6 billion, according to the United Nations. It took hundreds of thousands of years for Earth’s human population to reach 1 billion in 1804. The 3 billion milestone came in 1960. Not quite 40 years later, global population had doubled to 6 billion. In 2011, global population reached 7 billion mark. Today – October 12, 2015 – it stands at more than 7.3 billion. UNFPA, aka the United Nations Population Fund, marked this date as the Day of 6 Billion. Read a 2015 statement from UNFPA on 10 things you didn’t know about world population. Population experts did not agree on the exact date that world population reached the six billion milestone, but they came close. For example, the U.S. Census Bureau set the date just a few months earlier, on July 22, 1999. These numbers are estimates, after all. And, of course, human population is still growing. Driven by growth in developing countries, population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030. It should reach around 9.7 billion in 2050, with India expected to become the largest country in population size, surpassing China around 2022, while Nigeria could surpass the United States by 2050. By the year 2100, there should be 11.2 billion humans on the Earth. All of these figures are via a new United Nations report – World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision – released in July, 2015. Read a press statement about the UN’s latest population report The UNFPA pointed out that the Day of 6 Billion came only 80 days before the year 2000, allowing excellent comparisons to past populations:
UNFPA statistics released in September 1999 also stated that the child had a less than 1 in 10 chance of being born into “relative prosperity,” and a 3 in 10 chance of being born into “extreme poverty.” See real-time human population figures here. Bottom line: On October 12, 1999, global human population was estimated to hit 6 billion, according to the United Nations. UNFPA, aka the United Nations Population Fund, marked this date as the Day of 6 Billion. Comments:
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