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WORLD POPULATION 7 846 043 598 17 436 504 165, 619 7 320 262 69 531 10 116 242
Current World Population Births this year Births today Deaths this year Deaths today Net population growth this year 96,088 Net population growth today
The “people counter“ website which updates in real-time about the constant growth of the human population. World Population Prospect: the 2017 Revision – United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (June 21, 2017) International Programs Center at the U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. For more detailed information: World Population.
Fig. 1 Current population, growth and mortality rates.
begin with their demographic evolution, today the first element needed to understand cities. Demography of the city The website www.worldometers.info registers the demographic evolution of the human species on planet Earth in real time. At the precise moment this book is being written it tells us that there are 7 846 043 598 human beings living on the planet. While in actuality, of course, the website gives approximate numbers based on statistical estimates, the remarkable and indisputable fact is that the human population is now growing at a rate unprecedented in the history of the species (Fig. 1). According to a 1960 study by Edward Smith Deevey1, the total human population of the planet around 300 000 1 Edward Smith Deevey Jr. (1914 - 1988), born in Albany, New York, was a prominent American ecologist and paleolimnologist and an early student of G. Evelyn Hutchinson at Yale University. He was a pioneer in several areas of research, including population dynamics, systematics and ecology.