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Anthes: “The Global Trajectory” Overpopulation Unsustainable Economic Development Poverty and Disease Environmental Degradation

Population World today: 6,645 million U.S. today: 303 million Growth rate: 1.15 % per year

2008 6,679,532,264 1.15 77,530,496 2009 6,757,062,760 77,872,048 2010 6,834,934,808 1.14 78,328,753 2011 6,913,263,561 1.13 78,532,732 2012 6,991,796,293 1.12 78,452,306 2013 7,070,248,599 1.10 78,112,770 2014 7,148,361,369 1.08 77,557,287 2015 7,225,918,656 1.06 76,944,421 2016 7,302,863,077 1.04 76,326,972 2017 7,379,190,049 1.02 75,604,990 2018 7,454,795,039 1.00 74,773,616

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division

Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.

According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”

Water problems affect half of humanity: Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation. Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water survive on less than $2 a day, with one in three living on less than $1 a day. More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and more than 385 million on less than $1 a day.

0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s assets in 2004. source 27