Today is World Population Day, observed on July 11th every year. The intent is to raise awareness of global population issues. It was established by the United Nations and inspired by the date in 1987 that the world population reached five billion people.
It took the entire history of mankind to reach 5 billion people – thousands and thousands of years. We’re adding about a billion people every 12
Earth’s population is approaching 7-billion people. And even though some countries are experiencing negative population growth, the population is many third world countries is exploding. But how many people have there been since humans first appeared on earth?
Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast makes some interesting (some may say frightening) predictions, including the fact that the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population sometime this year.
I came across an interesting statement. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. Kinda scary, huh?
With more than 1.32 billion people – China has the largest population in the world. China reached the 1 billion mark in 1982 and in less than 30 years they added population equal to that of the United States. Matter