7.5 billion and counting ...

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Statistics of the world's population

off of thenextweb.com (please check the page for more information)

What?

The simplification of the statistics of the world or rather its most influential citizens: human and what current condition they are in.

Who? How?

Worldometers uses credible sources such as United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank and calculate its constantly updated numbers by using projections and guesstimate as closely as possible.

Why?

(Please go to the page for more insight of the whole world (i.e. China's the largest population, Monaco's the oldest, etc.)
According to the report, we could reach 8 billion mark sometime in 2024 and since we only reach the first billion in the early 1800s and past the five billion as recently as 1987 (that's like ... just 30 years ago!), it is the fact that most of us are living longer too that adds to the growth as well as the newborns since the average life expectancy is at 71 years. We can be sure that the Japanese would outlive all of us because theirs are at healthiest 83.7 years.

Then?

In hindsight, we can see how far we've come in the later half of the last century in terms of our technology and vital knowledge that contribute to the advancement of the medical industry and how it affect positively the lives of the citizens all over the world.

So?
This broad global overview is overlooking the more heartbreaking and dire situations of some of the inhabitants (i.e. in the Middle East) but we shouldn't forget the fact that we are currently at the best condition on the face of this Earth and be grateful of that achievement.

Lesson Learned:

"We are getting bigger by the second but have everyone found their feet yet?"

source: worldometers.info