Have you ever wondered how many we have been, are and will be in the world? In Lifestyle we want to respond to this incognita.
Born to be told
On October 30, 2011, at 11:58 p.m. The Philippines , in a hospital in Manila, a girl was born to whom her parents gave the name of Danica-Mae Camacho, they wondered what was special about this baby, and the answer cannot be more amazing: than according to UN estimates, Danica is possibly the human number seven thousand millions , although it could also be the six hundred children born the next two minutes, also according to estimates made by the UN, which calculate about three hundred and fifty births per minute.
In less than fifteen years the world population passed a little over six thousand millions to seven one thousand, a very noticeable growth compared to the fact that in 1800 We were just a thousand millions of inhabitants or that five thousand years ago maybe we were just a million .
that in the world they have been
For several decades different estimates have been made around how many human beings have passed through this planet since man is man, that is, homo sapiens sapiens; although the calculations do not go beyond ten thousand years ago.In 1995 Carl Haub, from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), calculated that on the Earth they have lived about 106,000 millions of people .This figure is much higher than others that calculated that 75% of all human beings were born and grew during the twentieth century.
The figures cannot be more explicit: in the year 1 of our era, 200 millions of inhabitants; thousand years later: 310; in 1850 1,262 million; one hundred years later, 2,500; and just sixty years later, seven billion.
Born not to count it
It is not easy to perform this kind of calculation, first, because there are no reliable demographic and statistical censuses beyond the 18th century; and because it is more than likely that more of 40% of people born do not have passed the first year of life, considering the high rates of infant mortality and that these began to reverse only in the last century.
The limits of growth
Nothing seems to indicate that the tendency to accelerated growth of the population will be reversed in the coming years, but it is clear that the resources destined to sustain this population are even by under of the requirements of the population current , especially in developing nations.Seeing from this perspective, the future of Danica-Mae Camacho looks Dark and disturbing.
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