2. Earth

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

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

6. 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

7. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division

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

10. 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.”

11. 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.

12. 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s assets in 2004. source 27