Tuesday, October 18, 2011

World Population to Reach 7 Billion

The world population will exceed 7 billion in the next few days, according to the UN. That figure is only 12 years since reaching 6 billion. World population is estimated to be 8 billion in 2025 and 10 billion before the end of this century. Most likely the baby to be born-7 billion in the Asia-Pacific region, where the population growth rate is higher than anywhere else in the world.

Experts say the population growth rate has reached a dangerous level, where the figure has tripled since 1940.

With more and more people to feed, house, and medical care, they said the world's resources are under greater pressure than ever before.

When the population is stable in industrialized countries, almost all population growth in the near future is estimated to occur in developing countries.

Of the 2.3 billion increase by 2050, according to the UN, more than 1 billion will live in sub-Saharan Africa. Children Continent region India will add 630 million people.

This will mean less and less land and water available for each person. The poor, who tend to be more dependent on natural resources, will bear the burden because they will not be able to compete with the rich.

Aging population also poses a problem in some industrialized countries, like Japan, where the population aged 65 and over has doubled in the last 20 years.

But, despite these problems, senior UN officials, Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, said to-7 billion children have a better chance than a decade ago to survive past the age of five.

The life expectancy for women and men has also increased in every country of Asia and the Pacific over the past decade, Dr. Heyzer added.

And although the pace of construction 1.1 percent in 2011 - which means an additional 78 million people by the end of this year - that figure has dropped from the top 2 percent in 1968.

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