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Earth's Population Will Reach 7 Billion in 2011 [1]

Some time in the year 2011, the earth's human population is expected to reach 7 billion. By 2045 global population is projected to reach nine billion. Can the planet take the strain?

Robert Kunzig reports in a special series for National Geographic, with photographs by Randy Olson, in the issue dated January 2011. [2]

People & Population [3]
International [4]
Public [5]
Source: National Geographic [2], 12/31/2010
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