The World tops 7 billion....

[Oyeve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20111017/D9QE220G1.html


"According to demographers, the world's population didn't reach 1 billion until 1804, and it took 123 years to hit the 2 billion mark in 1927. Then the pace accelerated - 3 billion in 1959, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, 6 billion in 1998."


Too many freaking people imo.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Here's a pretty cool interactive graph - http://www.boston.com/news/world/world_population/

 

[KaOTiK]

our race loves sex

 

[Pardus]

Out of the 7 billion humans on planet earth, 6.93 billion of them are complete morons.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Too many freaking people imo.

Yep. Asia and Africa are certainly positioned to be fucked hard if there's a massive and severe pandemic.

 

[ElFenix]

the 7th billion was on a slightly slower pace than the 6th

Here's a pretty cool interactive graph - http://www.boston.com/news/world/world_population/

neat

north america (anglo america) doubled from 1950 to today, europe went up by 50%, central america more than quadrupled, africa quadrupled, asia just about tripled, south america more than tripled, and the antipodeans just about tripled.

 

[waffleironhead]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20111017/D9QE220G1.html


"According to demographers, the world's population didn't reach 1 billion until 1804, and it took 123 years to hit the 2 billion mark in 1927. Then the pace accelerated - 3 billion in 1959, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, 6 billion in 1998."


Too many freaking people imo.

You have the power to make that number one smaller.

 

[Oyeve]

the 7th billion was on a slightly slower pace than the 6th

Must have been the .com burst and the recession.

 

[Oyeve]

You have the power to make that number one smaller.

Ok, i'll snipe you in your sleep.

 

[rivan]

Out of the 7 billion humans on planet earth, 6.93 billion of them are complete morons.

You're giving our race too much credit.

 

[brblx]

'time per billion' is an awful stupid way to measure population growth.

 

[Baked]

Spay and neuter is the key to population control.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

That is a lot of asians

 

[mugs]

the 7th billion was on a slightly slower pace than the 6th





neat

north america (anglo america) doubled from 1950 to today, europe went up by 50%, central america more than quadrupled, africa quadrupled, asia just about tripled, south america more than tripled, and the antipodeans just about tripled.

Try again. Africa needs to get some birth control.

 

[PottedMeat]

Spay and neuter is the key to population control.

random nukes are better. maybe we'll get a cool mutation.

 

[brblx]

Try again. Africa needs to get some birth control.

they prefer to practice death control over there to keep the population down.

 

[davmat787]

There was a very interesting article (cover story) in a recent NatGeo rag about this issue. After reading it, I came away with the impression that the global population will not continue to increase at the rates it has. Obviously it will not flatten, but the exponential curve will flatten some.

One of the biggest factors is womens education. In almost any country, the more educated tend to have less children, and are obviously able to care for them better.

Another factor is more countries are becoming more westernized and/or first world like. Many women interviewed in Brazil said there is no way they would consider having 6 or 7 children like their mother did. Too expensive to properly care for that many kids, send them school, .etc.

 

[burr4392]

As I read the headline, the though occurred to me that I think I have lived through a couple roll overs of the Billion Mark. And indeed I have. Kinda odd. Like being able to say a decade ago I was in.....

 

[JSt0rm]

in 3rd world countries your children are your retirement fund. So people there have as many as possible to ensure they can relax in their old age. Fix that problem and hopefully we will fix population growth.

 

[Newbian]

More food for the alien overlords.

 

[drebo]

It's Idiocracy, yo.

Also, it's not hard to imagine that population growth is exponential, rather than linear.

 

[Aikouka]

I was pondering medical advancement vs. world population awhile back, and I looked at some of these figures during that. I did notice that the growth was much larger as time went on, which made me wonder if medical advancement was causing a problem in that area. We have seen infant mortality rates go down immensely over the past 100 years, but interestingly enough... the developed nations aren't really the ones with high growth.

I started looking into growth by country/continent after I recalled a story about how Japan is seeing poor to negative growth. As others have mentioned in here, we're seeing a lot more growth in the undeveloped nations. Is it still possible to implicate our medical advancements that way? We do have a lot of outreach into the less developed nations, which could be a cause of their rampant growth.

Do you eventually think we may have too many people on the planet, and do you think our medical advances are causing potentially unsustainable growth rates?

 

[rcpratt]

Here's a pretty cool interactive graph - http://www.boston.com/news/world/world_population/

Interesting that Europe is going to decrease but Africa is going to more than double over the next 40 years, apparently.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Asia needs to slow the fuck down.

 

[DrPizza]

Interesting that Europe is going to decrease but Africa is going to more than double over the next 40 years, apparently.

It's the Catholic church and "condoms cause AIDS!" campaign.