World Population is Projected to hit 7 Billions by Monday Oct. 31st!

Posted by: najirashid on Friday, October 28th, 2011

Sometime on Monday October 31, 2011 the world population is projected to hit 7 billion. By 2050 the world population is projected to be 10.5 billion. Very interesting!

World population by the billions
1 billion – 1804
2 billion – 1927
3 billion – 1959
4 billion – 1974
5 billion – 1987
6 billion – 1999*
7 billion – 2011

*Year when the milestone was observed by the United Nations.

Source: United Nations Population Fund

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