What's Your Number? #7Billion

As we move closer to October 31st, the day the world population reaches 7 Billion, find out where you fit into 7 Billion. Just enter your birthday into ‘7 Billion and Me,’ the newly launched interactive website from the UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, which personalizes demographic trends. The website aims to help put these huge numbers in perspective by allowing users to relate their own personal characteristics —-such as date of birth, place of birth, sex, and current residence- to the rest of the world’s, soon to be, 7 billion citizens.


The Earth’s population topped the six billion mark approximately 12 years ago, and some estimates claim that it will top eight billion in 2025 and 10 billion by 2083.
The planet’s population has grown a reported 1.2% over the past five years.

“We are not here simply to acknowledge that milestone. We are here to address all of its vast implications,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Photo Credit: UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund