Friday, 21 October 2011

Will Changes In Demographics And Population Shift The Power Balance Of The World?



In A World With Seven Billion People, The Power Balance Will Shift -- Hamish McRae, The Independent

Asia and Africa will determine what happens with population growth.

Seven billion. Next week the world's population will, according the UN, reach seven billion and a baby born somewhere in the world will be designated the seven billionth baby – just as Adnan Nevic, now a healthy 11-year-old living in Bosnia, became the six billionth when he was born just after midnight on 11 October, 1999.

There is, of course, a spurious precision about this. We may have passed seven billion already – there are some suggestions we got there three months ago – or if the US Census Bureau is right, it will not happen until next March. But the detail does not matter.

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