Happy Day of 7 Billion!

#7 Hello World! India, home to over 1.2 billion people: estimated 17 million extra each year World population in billions billion 1960 1974 The world, October 31 2011: home to 7,000,000,000 people 1987 1999 2011* 2025* 2043* * According to the medium variant projection of the UN World Population Prospects 2010 Revision Mumbai metropolitan area: home to 20 Worldwide India has the million people | Dharavi Slum district highest number of births: 27 million per year In a decade India will overtake China as the world's most populous Today over 350,000 people will be born. According to computer calculations by the UN one of these boys and girls will be our planet's 7 billionth inhabitant. No one knows who - and one can only guess where country 92 countries have faster growing populations than India © Bitsofscience.org foto credits: Google