7 Billion

7107bride

Today, the world's population will hit 7 billion people.  At the current rate of growth, we won't grow by another billion for 14 years.

The 7 Billionth person should be born around 12:50pm CST, you can watch the turn here.

There are also some other cool and stunning #s on that site.

 

#nerd

ETA: adjusted the time...

BritanyV

That's just all on best guess calculations.   They can't account for every single person on earth so we could be past 7 billion or not because they can't truly account for every single death and/or birth. 

7107bride

BritanyV:

That's just all on best guess calculations.   They can't account for every single person on earth so we could be past 7 billion or not because they can't truly account for every single death and/or birth. 

Right, it even says that on the site:"Obviously the UN data is based on estimates and can't be 100% accurate, so in all honesty nobody can possibly say with any degree of certainty on which day world population will really hit 7 billion, let alone at what time."

It doesn't make it any less interesting (to me) to know that there are 7 billion +/- people in the world.

BritanyV

7107bride:

BritanyV:

That's just all on best guess calculations.   They can't account for every single person on earth so we could be past 7 billion or not because they can't truly account for every single death and/or birth. 

Right, it even says that on the site:"Obviously the UN data is based on estimates and can't be 100% accurate, so in all honesty nobody can possibly say with any degree of certainty on which day world population will really hit 7 billion, let alone at what time."

It doesn't make it any less interesting (to me) to know that there are 7 billion +/- people in the world.

Yeah, that is a lot of people either way!