Forum Post: 6.99 Billion
Posted 12 years ago on Feb. 2, 2012, 1:38 a.m. EST by asauti
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from Port Orchard, WA
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At last check of the US Census Bureau's World Population clock, it was at: 6,991,710,199 Billion people.
(source: http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html)
In 1960, it was reported as 3,039,451,023 Billion people.
(source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762181.html)
Wow. In just over 50 years, it has more than doubled.
Best of luck to ALL OF US LIVING in the next 50 years. I'm young now, so I expect to be one of them!
Birth rate in the US has actually gone down I believe. I think we're essentially replacing ourselves. It's somewhere around 2 children per household. Of course, we're living longer, so that's a factor...
You wrote: "Birth rate in the US has actually gone down I believe."
Yes, that would good to know. Do you have any numbers and a source?
The focus of the post was to look at the world's overall population. I could do a new post that provides population data on just the United States.
I wasn't trying to start an argument. Just commenting. It's several nations that are having these beyond MASSIVE population booms. I say we helicopter in some free birth control. (j/k)
Birth rate hits all time low in US-- http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aabirthrate.htm
Children Born per Woman in North America-- North America – 1.99 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation#Human_population
Strangely, however, during 2005–2050, nine countries are expected to account for half of the world's projected population increase: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda, United States, Ethiopia, and China. I wonder how we made this list-- given the birth rate above. (Also on wiki)
The time stamp of the original post was 1:38am. It is now 1:48am and the updated World Population is now at 6,991,712,589.
So, an increase of more than 2,000 in the last 10 minutes.
2,000 new babies were just born. And guess what they are "saying"?
Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed Me!!