Seeing double (the population, that is)

[yesdachi]

I stumbled on this site today and the info was kind of surprising (it shouldn’t be, it’s not new, I just wasn’t aware) so I thought I would share.

Here is an excellent population graph, one of the best I have ever seen.

And here is its site of origin. It contains some cool info.

And here is an interesting (partial) list of Overpopulation - Quick Facts

·World population is projected to increase from 6 to 9 billion in the next 50 years.

·In low-income countries more than a third of the population is under age 15, while in high-income countries less than a fifth is.

·The world’s population is growing by 200,000 people a day.

·Between 1980 and 2030, the population of low- and middle-income countries will more than double -- to 7.0 billion, compared with 1 billion for high-income countries.

·In the next 35 years, 2.5 billion people will be added to the current population of 6 billion.

·U.S. population has doubled during the past 60 years to 270 million and, at the current growth rate, is projected to possibly double again, to 540 million, in the next 75 years. Each year our nation adds 3 million people (including legal immigrants) to its population, plus an estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants.

To state the obvious, we might have some overpopulation growth pain issues to deal with soon if were not already. Any thoughts?

[BDC]

To state the obvious, we might have some overpopulation growth pain issues to deal with soon if were not already. Any thoughts?

It will probably be ok, at least America is large and still fairly empty. If the population doubled in Britain we'd all be sitting on each other.

[Sjakihata]

A quick world war using ABC weapons will help solve that problem...

[Geoffrey S]

Could get cosy here in Holland.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Of course, birthrates are going down in most Western countries, to my knowledge. The only reason several European countries experiance net population growth is immigration. I think that also goes for the US.

Of course, we could fit the entire world's population in the state of Texas and have a population density less than that of New York City.

World's Population = 6562868400 (at time of post, roughly)
Texas' Land Area (square km) = 678,907
NYC's Population density (per square km) = 10,292

Population density of world in Texas (rounded to nearest one): 9667 people/square km

Which is less than NYC's population density.

[Byzantine Prince]

That's a great point Alexander. That's why it's always funny to me how people worry about lack of space.

My only worry is that the poor populations of India will never grow into middle class as their population increases.