BBC News - 7 billion people and you: What's your number?

The world's population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks. After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years. Where do you fit into this story of human life? Fill in your date of birth below to find out.

• 1. DATE OF BIRTH
• 2. COUNTRY
• 3. GENDER
• 4. RESULTS

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Where do you fit into 7 billion? Enter your date of birth to find out:

1500: the population is estimated at 500 million2011: 7,000,000,00015001525155015751600162516501675170017251750177518001825185018751900192519501975200020252050 1 billion2 billion3 billion4 billion5 billion6 billion7 billion8 billion9 billion10 billion

How big is your country's population? To find out, tell us where you live:

POPULATION 10002587

Every hour, there are:

15,347 Births 6,418 Deaths

Average yearly growth

+1.162%

Fastest-growing country

Qatar

+514 people per day

Average 2005-2010 Why?

Fastest-shrinking country

Moldova

-106 people per day

Average 2005-2010 Why?

Life expectancy varies across the world. Are you:

81.6 Female average

77.2 Male average

The average life expectancy in the UK is 81.6 years

Highest life expectancy

Japan

82.7 years

Average 2005-2010 Why?

Lowest life expectancy

Central African Republic

45.9 years

Average 2005-2010 Why?

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via bbc.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

What is really amazing to me is that how quickly the earth's population has grown in the last few hundred years, to think in the fifteen hundreds, we were looking at about five hundred million; if the population of the USA is about 300 million, that would be a big chunk of the world's population in the middle ages.