World Population day is an annual event observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues… It was inspired by the Public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, the approximate date on which the world’s population reached five billion. The day seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues.

From TheWorldCounts it’s estimated that every second there are 4.3 births and 1.8 deaths, which adds up to a net population gain of 2.5 people per second.

The current world population is 7.7 billion as of June 2019 according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometers.



Nigeria who number 7 of world’s population to take US from third to fourth position in population

More than 700 million women in the world were married before the age of 18, including around 15 million girls forced into marriage in 2015 alone, according to UNICEF

India is estimated to rank top populous country ahead of china in 2027 due to higher death rate over birthrate in china. This two countries alone holds 38% of the world’s population with a figure of 1.37 and 1.47 billion respectively.

According to the United Nations,four out of the present top 10 populous nations will no longer will step down and top four will be replaced by the fast growing African nations by 2100.

According to worldometers, we have four African nations, Nigeria 7th position globally with an estimate of 200 million, eleven Asian countries, China 1st position globally with an estimate of 1.4 billion; Two European countries, Russian at number 9 with an estimate of 143.8 million, two North-American nations, USA 3rd position with an estimate of 329.1million; One South-American nation, Brazil 5th position with an estimate of 212.4 million on the chart board of top 20 populous nations.

Do you know that 36 of the 40 poorest and hungriest countries in the world actually export food to wealthier nations?



The world has added approximately one billion inhabitants over the last twelve years.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd most populous in the world, with 1.39 billion “citizens” logging on to the social networking site every month.

More than three-quarters of the world’s population lives in Africa (17 percent) and Asia (60 percent).

Nigeria has about 198m people and of the 10 most populous countries, Nigeria has the fastest growing population.

62 million girls are denied an education every year around the globe, and about 25 percent of young women in developing nations ages 15-24 (115 million total) never finished primary school. Stated by the eGirlPower

Do we really have too many people in the world? Standing side by side, the entire world’s population would fit into 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers) – which is less than the size of Los Angeles. According to NationalGeographic.

Did you know that Iowa provides enough eggs to give an egg-a-day for the world population for 2 days, an egg-a-day for China for 11 days, and an egg-a-day for all Americans for 47 days?



Do you know one-eighth of the world population still hunger and every day die many people through malnutrition

Overall fertility is declining, despite increased fertility in some parts of the world.

The country with the youngest generation is Niger with the median age of 15.3 years old. While Niger has the youngest median age in the world, a majority of African nations have median ages below 20.

The average person on earth is a 28 year-old, right-handed Han Chinese male. There are 9 million people on earth who fit that description, more than any other. We have 9 million copies of them in the world, this means you’re not the average guy on the street somehow. Isn’t that surprising?

Source: World Population Day

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