Monday, October 31, 2011
World population reaches 7 billion
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BOSTON — Planet Earth’s population reached 7 billion people Monday, according to the United Nations, posing new challenges to provide adequate food for all.
After taking about 250,000 years to reach the 1 billion mark in 1805, the world’s population has exploded in the past two centuries. The population reached 2 billion people in 1927 and then doubled to 4 billion just 47 years later in 1974.
Now only 12 years after the United Nations named Bosnian Adnan Nevic as number 6 billion on Oct. 12, 1999, the world has reached the 7 billion milestone.
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