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World population and growth

Factoring the net birth minus death rate in the world each year, the annual increase to world population is about 75 million people. The current world population is about 6,900,000,000, or 6.9 billion.

Annually, we add to the planet the equivalent population of any of the following scenarios,

• New York City (9 of them!)
• Los Angeles (20 of them!)
• Chicago (27 of them!)
• San Francisco (94 of them!)
• Boston (117 of them!)
• Unites States of America (25 percent of the country!)

When you think about it, this is a startling number. And that’s in just one Read more…