Originally Posted by dad

Population Overload

The world's population has increased dramatically, currently just under seven billion. We have added nearly one billion people to the planet in the past decade, mostly to underdeveloped nations. The world faces a test to see if we have enough resources to support these added billions.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world’s 6 billionth person was born at 1:40 AM on Sunday, July 18, 1999.

Every second, five people are born, and two people die.

Over the past 60 years the “green revolution” has allowed us to feed three times as many people while farming roughly the same amount of land.

About three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day.

Cities take up only three percent of the world’s land and house half the population.

There are 75 million more people on the planet this year than last year. By the time we get to 2050, experts expect the increase to be about half of that, closer to 34 million a year.

The average number of children per woman per lifetime is around 2.6 or 2.7. One hundred women have 260 children per lifetime. That varies very widely from about 1.4 children per woman in Europe, to 5.1 in Africa today.

Life expectancy rose from 30 or 40 years in 1900 to 66 years by the end of the 20th century.

Fifty-one countries or areas, most of them economically more developed, will lose population between now and 2050. Germany is expected to drop from 83 million to 79 million people, Italy from 58 million to 51 million, Japan from 128 million to 112 million and, most dramatically, the Russian Federation from 143 million to 112 million. Thereafter Russia will be slightly smaller in population than Japan.

Mexico City is sinking 10 centimeters a year as underground pipes that suck water from aquifers leak.

Tokyo is the single biggest city in the world in terms of population, at 28,025,000. New York is the biggest American city – at just over 16 million

China has the biggest population of any country in the world -- 1,338,612,968. India is second at 1,156,897,766. The United States has the world’s third biggest population – at just over 300,000,000.

In six of the past seven years, the human race has consumed more grain than it grew.

Food and fresh water will be a big problem.