Dr. Avnish Jolly, Chandigarh:There are 6.7 billion people in the world today. The world’s population will reach 7 billion in 2012, even as the global community struggles to satisfy its appetite for natural resources, according to a new government projection. According to projections released Thursday by the Census Bureau. The global population is growing by about 1.2 percent per year.
The Census Bureau projects the growth rate will decline to 0.5 percent by 2050. By then, India will have surpassed China as the most populous country.
There are countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East where the average woman has more than six children in her lifetime. In Mali and Niger, two African nations, women average more than seven children.
The world’s population surpassed 6 billion in 1999, meaning it will take only 13 years to add a billion people. By comparison, the number of people didn’t reach 1 billion until 1800, said Carl Haub, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau. It didn’t reach 2 billion until 130 years later and one can easily see the effect of rapid population growth in developing countries.
Haub explained that medical and nutritional advances in developing countries led to a population explosion following World War II. Cultural changes are slowly catching up, with more women in developing countries going to school and joining the work force. That is slowing the growth rate, though it is still high in many countries.
The Census Bureau updates projections each year on a variety of global demographic trends, including fertility and mortality rates and life expectancy. U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years for the first time, the National Center for Health Statistics announced last week.
Latest Census report comes amid record high oil and gasoline prices, fueled in part by growing demand from expanding economies in China and India. Today, industrialized nations use a disproportionate share of oil and other resources, while developing countries are fueling population growth.
There’s still a long way to go in the developing world a lot of it does have to do with the education of women and the movement of women into the labor force. To read the detail report please visit:
The Census Bureau’s International Database:
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/index.html
More and more people would be glad to live. Encourage large families worldwide, so that far more people may experience life.
Human population growth is beautiful, for it allows more people to enjoy life.
The evil feminists and population control freaks, with their evil prattle for “reproductive rights” (going against nature to not have children) seem to have started a lot of Big Pharma’s agenda to turn people into experimental lab rats for their contraceptive potions and poisons.
Now I see all these stupid TV commercials for this or that pill, and towards the end, they rattle off a long list of side-effects. I wish I could yell back, “Do I look like a lab rat to you? I’m no contraceptive user.”