The United Nations has officially announced that November 15, 2022 was “8 billion days” -the day when the population of the earth reached 8 billion.

The United Nations revealed that the population has jumped from 700 million to 8 billion yuan for 12 years. It is emphasized that as the population increases, the responsibility of protecting the earth has increased, because land, clean water, food, endangered wildlife and carbon emissions must be with The average life expectancy of human beings is continuously extended and valued at a higher level.

The United Nations commented: “This unprecedented growth is due to the improvement of public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine, which has gradually extended human life. This is also the result of high fertility rates in some countries.”

As the National Geographical Magazine pointed out, the Homo sapiens took about 300,000 years to reach 1 billion in 1804, and then it took 155 years to reach 3 billion in 1959, and then the population increased by 5 billion. It has reached the current 8 billion 63 years old.

The United Nations predicts that the population will exceed 10 billion this century, and pointed out that the leader of the population growth is no longer China and India, but the southern African countries in Sahara.

 

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