Seven Billion People

[liveonearth]

We're slated to hit 7,000,000,000 in 2012.
We hit 6 billion in 1999.
Thirteen years to add a billion.
We hit 1 billion in 1800.
In 1930, 130 years later, we made 2 billion.
(data from the AP)
So between 1930 and 1999 we added 4 billion in 69 years.

Comments

[rinku.livejournal.com]

I'll probably still be alive when there's 9 billion people (even without life extension or health technology improving). But it's weird that there's such a huge gap between when we are expected to reach 9 and 10 billion -- predictions are that 9 billion will be reached around 2045, and 10 billion only around 2170 or so, over a hundred years later.