World Adding Another Billion People Every 12 Years
Embargoed until 5 p.m. (EDT) (GMT-4), July 27, 2011
Global population will reach 7 billion later in 2011, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion in 1999
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's world population is double the population in 1967. But while the overall growth rate has slowed, the population is still growing, and growth rates in some countries show little if any decline.
The Population Reference Bureau's 2011 World Population Data Sheet and its summary report will be released on July 27, 2011, at 5 p.m. (EDT) at www.prb.org. These publications offer detailed information on 18 population, health, and environment indicators for more than 200 countries. A webinar will be held on July 28, at 11 a.m. (EDT).
"Even though the annual population growth rate has declined to 1.2 percent per year, world population grows by about 83 million annually," says Wendy Baldwin, PRB's president. "If the late 1960s population growth rate of 2.1 percent—the highest in history—had held steady, world population would have grown by 117 million annually, and today's population would have been 8.6 billion."
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