World Population
Created | Updated Oct 20, 2010
On August 8, 1999 (estimates vary) on Planet Earth the population of Planet Earth will reach 6 billion people.
This number has been achieved largely by men and women carrying out an activity known in some parts of the world as "nookie".
Also aiding this great achievement are advances in farming (an activity which involves massively inflating the populations of certain co-existing lifeforms for human food purposes, while eliminating all animals and plants that are not tasty enough), disease control (which is a sort of neverending game to control other organisms in life's champion's league), medicine (which keeps humans fertile for longer), the fact that we have not yet been hit by a big asteroid from space, or indeed gobbled by a black hole.
The world human population doubles every 35 years or so, so this means that in a mere 100 years, the population of our planet will be somewhere in the region of 40 billion souls, about 8 times the current population. This means that the UK will have a population of 520 million, the USA will have a population of 2 billion, and China will have a population of 11 billion people. And you thought it was crowded now..... :-)
This number has been achieved largely by men and women carrying out an activity known in some parts of the world as "nookie".
Also aiding this great achievement are advances in farming (an activity which involves massively inflating the populations of certain co-existing lifeforms for human food purposes, while eliminating all animals and plants that are not tasty enough), disease control (which is a sort of neverending game to control other organisms in life's champion's league), medicine (which keeps humans fertile for longer), the fact that we have not yet been hit by a big asteroid from space, or indeed gobbled by a black hole.
The world human population doubles every 35 years or so, so this means that in a mere 100 years, the population of our planet will be somewhere in the region of 40 billion souls, about 8 times the current population. This means that the UK will have a population of 520 million, the USA will have a population of 2 billion, and China will have a population of 11 billion people. And you thought it was crowded now..... :-)
