Seven billion people and climbing, but not everywhere

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More than 7,057,608,000 are expected to be alive on earth by the end of World Population Day this Wednesday. The global population is still growing overall, but demographic discrepancies are widening.


More than 7 billion people inhabit planet earth, with the overall growth continuing unabated on World Population Day.

According to figures from DSW, the German world population foundation, the number of people on earth rises by 2.6 per second, 158 per minute, over 225,000 per day, or almost 83 million per year.

Modern population growth is fueled primarily by Africa, Asia and Latin America, while populations are steady - or even sinking - in much of Europe.

DSW estimates that the number of people in Africa will increase more than threefold this century, reaching around 3.5 billion.

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