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The Earth's seven billionth inhabitant will be born in October
Last reviewed: 30.06.2025
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The world's population is constantly growing, approaching the 7 billion mark, Deutsche Welle reports.
Demographers from around the world are arguing about where exactly the historic event of the birth of the seven-billionth citizen of the Earth will take place. By all estimates, it will not happen on the European continent, but in China or India - countries with the highest population growth in the world. However, perhaps the same seven-billionth inhabitant of the Earth has already been born - there are no absolute statistics on this matter, so it is impossible to calculate the exact day when this event will take place.
However, the UN has chosen October 31 as a symbolic date. Now some demography experts believe that this day may come even earlier.
The Earth's population has increased at an astonishing rate over the past two centuries. At the time of Jesus Christ, there were just over 300 million people on Earth. Only at the beginning of the 19th century did the number of people on Earth reach the first billion. In the first 11 years of the 21st century, the Earth was replenished with another billion inhabitants. However, demographers are in no hurry to make further forecasts. "The problematic nature of forecasting here is connected with infectious epidemics, wars, scientific progress and the readiness of nations for global interaction," notes demographer David Bloom from Harvard University.