This century began with 1.6 billion people

October 12, 1999 is the official date when world population reached 6,000,000,000

Now, there are roughly:

1B Moslems
1B Catholics
1B white people
1B people who live in India
1B people who live in China
1B between 15-24 (starting to have babies)
1B live in shanty towns
0.5B over 60
1.5B people who live on less than $1 a day (UN report, 10/16/98)
1/2 the world is under 25

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world population is estimated to reach 8 B by 2025 (UN, June 30, 1999)

June 1999 ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE: The world is in for a decade of "super-disasters" due to "human-driven climate change" and changing social conditions. Evidence of this grim prediction is contained in a report issued by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies .... Six years ago, the relief agency assisted less than half a million people with natural disasters; last year, it was more than five and a half million. There is a trend toward weather triggered super-disasters, and the report tracks the impact of El Nino and the chain reaction of crises it created. Fires, droughts and floods from last year's El Nino claimed 21,000 lives, the report says. As natural disasters and losses increase, funding for aid activities has dropped by 40 percent over the past five years. Many insurance companies now refuse to provide coverage in the Caribbean region .... One billion people live in shanty towns around the world, and 40 of the 50 fastest growing cities are located in earthquake zones, the report notes. Another ten million people live under constant threat of floods.

400 billionaires in the world

71% of US is white (non-Hispanic)
17% of world is white

the younger you are the less white

the top 20% of the world's people receive nearly 83% of the world's total income and the poorest 20% receive only 1.4%, a ratio of 60 to 1

358 billionaires and their combined assets exceed the total annual income of the world's 2.3 billion poorest people-45% of the global population

"Today, two centuries after Malthus, we find ourselves in a demographically divided world, one where national projections of population growth vary more widely than at any time in history. In some countries, population has stabilized or is declining; but in others, population is projected to double or even triple before stabilizing.

In 32 countries, containing 14 percent of world population, population growth has stopped. By contrast, Ethiopia's population of 62 million is projected to more than triple to 213 million in 2050. Pakistan will go from 148 million to 357 million, surpassing the U.S. population before 2050. Nigeria, meanwhile, is projected to go from 122 million today to 339 million, giving it more people in 2050 than there were in all of Africa in 1950. The largest absolute increase is anticipated for India, which is projected to add another 600 million by 2050, thus overtaking China as the most populous country."-

"While industrial countries have held HIV infection rates among their adult populations under 1percent or less, a 1998 World Health Organization survey reports that in Zimbabwe, for example, 26 percent of the adult population is HIV positive. In Botswana it is 25 percent, Zambia 20 percent, Namibia 19 percent, and Swaziland 18 percent.

Barring a miracle, these societies will lose one fifth or more of their adult population within the next decade from AIDS alone. These adult deaths, the deaths of infants infected with the virus, and high mortality among the millions of AIDS orphans, along with the usual deaths, will bring population growth to a halt or even into decline. With these high mortality trends, more reminiscent of the Dark Ages than the bright new millennium so many had hoped for, these countries are falling back to stage one."

Worldwatch Institute, September 26, 1998