Population explosion

During this year, the number of people to reach seven billion and increase of population in Africa will neutralize the reduction in population growth in other parts of the world, a study published in the French National Institute for Demographic Research.

Overall, the 1999 world population reached 6 billion and it only took 12 years to increase by another billion.

French Institute predicts that the population of the planet continue to rise for decades, and will stabilize at the level of 9 to 10 billion at the end of this century. French predict that in 14 years the world's 8 billion people live. The growth of the global population is higher than 19 centuries, in the last 200 years the world population has increased sevenfold.