Population and Settlement

Today in class we started a new topic on Population and settlement. We learned that there are over 7.5 billion people on the planet right now. Every year the population increases by 73 million. 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. We learned that people die and people come into this world every 10 seconds. in 1804 the population was 1 billion people. In the range of 214 years the population grew to 7 billion and will keep growing. In the next 11-12 years there will be 8 billion or more people in the world!