How many people are there in the world?

SURVEY SEZ!

There are more than 6.7 billion humans inhabiting Planet Earth!

(Click here to view World Population as a pie chart)

SOURCES:

= According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are currently more than 6.7 billion people in world.

= From the CIA World Factbook:

- World Population: 6,790,062,216 (July 2009 est.)

- World Population Growth Rate: 1.167% (2009 est.)

- World Birth Rate: 19.95 births per 1,000 population (2009 est.)

- World Death Rate: 8.2 deaths per 1,000 population (2009 est.)

INTERESTING FACTS:

= From the U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base:

- 258 people are born every minute; 4.3 every second.

- 106 people die every minute; 1.8 every second.

- That's a total gain of 152 people every minute or two-and-a-half people every second!

= From Wikipedia - World Population:

- The "Day of 7 Billion" - when the population of Planet Earth will reach 7 billion - is projected to occur sometime around February 2012.

- Assuming the current growth rate of 1.167% continues, the world's population of 6.7 billion will double to 13.4 billion in nearly 60 years (around 2069).

= Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau estimated the number of people who have ever lived at 106 billion. Other estimates range from about 45 billion to 125 billion.

- Given a global population of 6.7 billion and accepting Haub's estimate of 106 billion, it can be calculated that about 6% of all people who ever existed are alive today (6.7 billion divided by106 billion = 6.3%).

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POPULATION GROWTH

RELATED LINKS:

= World Population Clock:
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html

= CIA World Factbook:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

= Wikipedia - World Population:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

= World as a Village of 100:
http://users.gazinter.net/melan/Warn/Warnenu.html

= World as a Village of 1000 - Dona Meadows:
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/1000-village.html