{"id":24795,"date":"2019-07-11T08:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T07:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24795"},"modified":"2019-07-11T08:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T07:16:03","slug":"the-world-population-of-7-7-billion-forecast-to-reach-10-9-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24795","title":{"rendered":"The world population of 7.7 billion forecast to reach 10.9 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we mark World Population Day. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/07\/africa-birth-control-global-population-crisis\">a recent article<\/a> in the &#8220;Guardian newspaper put it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;This will be the 30th anniversary of the annual event set up by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/unitednations\">United Nations<\/a>&nbsp;in 1989 \u2013 when there were a mere 5 billion people on Earth \u2013 to focus attention on the urgency of our impending population crisis. Today there are about 7.7 billion men, women on children on Earth, a staggering figure given that a century ago, there were only 1.9 billion. <\/p><p>And although populations have stabilised in many regions, in particular Europe and North America, figures released by the UN this month show global numbers are now growing at the alarming rate of about 100 million every 14 months. By 2050, the Earth\u2019s population will have hit 9.7 billion and it will continue to rise, reaching a figure of about 10.9 billion by 2100.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we mark World Population Day. As a recent article in the &#8220;Guardian newspaper put it: &#8220;This will be the 30th anniversary of the annual event set up by the&nbsp;United Nations&nbsp;in 1989 \u2013 when there were a mere 5 billion people on Earth \u2013 to focus attention on the urgency of our impending population crisis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24797,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795\/revisions\/24797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}