Seven-billionth inhabitant of the Earth will be born in October
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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The population of the Earth is constantly increasing, coming close to the mark of 7 billion. This is reported by the Deutsche Welle.
Demographers from around the world are arguing about exactly where the historic event of the birth of a seven-billion citizen of the Earth will take place. By all estimates, this will happen not on the European continent, but in China or India - the countries with the largest population growth in the world. However, perhaps the same seven billionth inhabitant of the Earth was already born - there is no absolute statistics on this matter, therefore it is impossible to calculate the exact day when this event will occur.
However, the UN elected a symbolic date on October 31. Now some experts on demographic issues believe that this day may come even earlier.
The population of the Earth over the past two centuries has increased at an astounding rate. At the time of Jesus Christ on Earth lived a little more than 300 million people. Only in the early 19th century the number of earthlings reached the first billion. During the first 11 years of the 21st century, the earth was replenished by another billion inhabitants. However, demographers do not hurry to make subsequent forecasts. "The problematic prediction here is associated with infectious epidemics, wars, scientific progress and the willingness of nations to global interaction," notes the demographer David Bloom of Harvard University.