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Title: World population to hit 7 Bio. this year
Post by: Tender Branson on August 01, 2011, 02:46:27 AM
(CNN) -- Earth will become home to 7 billion people later this year, and most of the planet's growth will affect the developing countries the most, straining those regions' limited resources, a Harvard University professor said Thursday.

The world's growth has been dramatic: It was just in 1999 that the global population reached 6 billion. United Nations projections call for the population to reach 10.1 billion in 2100, according to David Bloom, a professor of economics and demography at the Harvard School of Public Health, in an article published in the July 29 issue of Science.

By 2050, about 2.3 billion more people will be added, nearly as many as the total living on the globe as recently as 1950, Bloom said. Humanity grew slowly through most of history, taking until 1800 for the population to hit 1 billion.

In the past half-century, the population grew from 3 billion to about 7 billion.

Forecasts call for the world's "demographic center of gravity" to shift from more-developed to less-developed regions, Bloom wrote in his article, according to a Harvard news release.

This means the developing world will face hardships in providing food, water, housing and energy to their growing populations, with repercussions for health, security and economic growth.

"The demographic picture is indeed complex, and poses some formidable challenges," Bloom said.

"Those challenges are not insurmountable, but we cannot deal with them by sticking our heads in the sand. We have to tackle some tough issues ranging from the unmet need for contraception among hundreds of millions of women and the huge knowledge-action gaps we see in the area of child survival, to the reform of retirement policy and the development of global immigration policy. It's just plain irresponsible to sit by idly while humankind experiences full force the perils of demographic change," Bloom said.

In the next 40 years, virtually all (97%) of the world's 2.3 billion projected increase will be in the underdeveloped regions, with nearly half (49%) in Africa.

Meanwhile, the populations of more developed countries will remain flat. As those peoples age, however, there will be fewer working-age adults to support retirees living on social pensions, Bloom said.

"Although the issues immediately confronting developing countries are different from those facing the rich countries, in a globalized world demographic challenges anywhere are demographic challenges everywhere," Bloom wrote.

In 2011, about 135 million people will be born and 57 million will die -- a net increase of 78 million.

But uncertainly exists about the global projections, Bloom wrote. Depending on whether the number of births per woman continues to decline, population predictions for 2050 span from 8.1 billion to 10.6 billion, and the 2100 projections vary from 6.2 billion to 15.8 billion, Bloom said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/07/27/world.population.growth

http://www.prb.org/pdf11/world-at-7-billion.pdf

http://www.prb.org/pdf11/2011population-data-sheet_eng.pdf


Title: Re: World population to hit 7 Bio. this year
Post by: Antonio the Sixth on August 01, 2011, 05:18:57 AM
Wow... :o


Title: Re: World population to hit 7 Bio. this year
Post by: opebo on August 01, 2011, 06:00:37 AM
According to the Market, this should make humans cheaper, right?


Title: Re: World population to hit 7 Bio. this year
Post by: Tender Branson on August 01, 2011, 07:11:37 AM
Here's a comparison of 90s growth and growth in this decade among the countries with 100 Mio. + populations.

90s growth

China: 1134 -> 1266 -> +132
India: 843 ->1029 -> +186
USA: 249 -> 281 -> +32
Indonesia: 179 -> 206 -> +27
Brazil: 144 -> 170 -> +26
Pakistan: 107 -> 140 -> +33
Nigeria: 86 -> 119 -> +33
Bangladesh: 106 -> 124 -> +18
Russia: 147 -> 145 -> -2
Japan: 124 -> 127 -> +3
Mexico: 81 -> 97 -> +16
Philippines: 61 -> 77 -> +16

Total growth: +520 Mio.

growth this past decade

China: 1266 -> 1340 -> +74
India: 1029 -> 1210 -> +181
USA: 281 -> 309 -> +28
Indonesia: 206 -> 238 -> +32
Brazil: 170 -> 191 -> +21
Pakistan: 140 -> 178 -> +38
Nigeria: 119 -> 162 -> +43
Bangladesh: 124 -> 142 -> +18
Russia: 145 -> 143 -> -2
Japan: 127 -> 128 -> +1
Mexico: 97 -> 112 -> +15
Philippines: 77 -> 94 -> +17

Total growth: +466 Mio.

But there are numerous smaller countries that had much bigger growth this decade than in the 90s, expecially in Africa, so the world-growth-rate was unlikely to go down.


Title: Re: World population to hit 7 Bio. this year
Post by: ag on August 01, 2011, 09:36:50 AM
According to the Market, this should make humans cheaper, right?

You wish :))

The growth is on both the demand and supply side :))