Human Population Reaches 7 Billion—How Did This Happen and Can It Go On?

On October 31, 2011, a particularly special person will be born–the seven billionth human alive, according to United Nations demographers. He or she could be delivered by a starving mother in the growing wastelands of Somalia, a failed-state gripped by famine and war. The best odds are that the child will be born in India, which has the highest rate of births per minute in the world.

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Human Population Reaches 7 Billion—How Did This Happen and Can It Go On?