{"id":41263,"date":"2011-11-02T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=41263"},"modified":"2012-01-08T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:15:52","slug":"global-population-reaches-7-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/11\/02\/global-population-reaches-7-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Population Reaches 7 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the emphasis on Halloween, you may or may not have heard that this year, October 31st was noteworthy for another reason: according to the United Nations, that’s the day the global population hit 7 billion. The UN has set up a website<\/a> to provide information about population trends and estimates for the future. Here’s the current world population<\/a>, by region:<\/p>\n

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The map is interactive, so you can click on a region to find out its population, as well as its percentage of the total world population.<\/p>\n

You can also estimate the population through 2100 based on various fertility scenarios. In the default medium scenario, fertility is expected to follow past trends, leveling out at a little over 10 billion by 2100:<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, if we saw no further reductions in global fertility, the 2100 population would be over 26.8 billion:<\/p>\n

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There’s an enormous amount of data available at the site. For instance, if you select the Births tab, you can click on either a region or a specific country and find out what percent of births are to women in different age groups. Here’s the % of all births to women aged 15-19, by country:<\/p>\n

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And the chart showing the total age breakdown for Finland (at the site you can hover over the graph to get the actual %):<\/p>\n

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A chart of deaths by age and sex, illustrating the continued high mortality in infancy and early childhood:<\/p>\n

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There’s also a section of the site<\/a> where you can enter information about your own date and place of birth and then get a snapshot of what the global population was when you were born. Since I entered the world:<\/p>\n

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Overall, it’s a pretty great resource, and another one of those websites that can easily eat up a significant amount of your time without you realizing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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