Some interesting facts about World Population Day

In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly declared July 11 as World Population Day, focused on enhancing awareness of population issues, including their relation to the environment and development.

Check out some facts about the day:

In 1000 AD, the world population was only 400 million. It first reached 1 billion in 1804 and 3 billion by 1960. It only took 40 years — by 2000 — for the population to double to 6 billion.

Every second of every day, 4.2 people are born and 1.8 people die. It’s expected that by 2050, nearly 70% of the world’s population will live in cities.

The theme for 2017 is Family Planning: Empowering People, Developing Nations. This year, it coincides with the Family Planning Summit in London, which aims to expand access to voluntary family planning to 120 million additional women by 2020.

India stands second in the population chart. It is expected that India will surpass China by 2025/2030 in population growth which is projected to be 1.65 billion.

About 1.8 billion people around the world are between the ages of 10 and 24, which is the largest population of young people ever. About 52% of the total world population is under 30 years old.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous in the world, with 1.39 billion “citizens” logging on to the social networking site every month.

Source: un.org, huffingtonpost.com, express.co.uk