The world’s population is growing quickly and on 31 October 2011 it reached 7 billion, although no one knows exactly where or when on that day this number was reached.
Current projections show a steady decline in the rate of population growth but a continuing increase in the world’s total population, reaching 8 billion by around 2025. By 2045–50 the total is expected to reach around 9 billion.
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