7 billion births

[deggers316]

it is said for this to occur next monday
absolutely not possible to say this there's thousand of babies born daily in out of the way places and probably will never be registered like north Siberia and countries in africa etc
it will occur but nobody can put any date on this

[grasscarp]

You can have a bit of fun by putting in your date of birth to find what your number is - ie number of people estimated alive when you were born
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
Min is 2,513,592,034

[emmie]

grasscarp, i did mine, and was horrified. This planet cannot sustain this many people. Let's have another world war, that usually gets rid of millions, last one was something like 90 million, give or take a few.

[grasscarp]

Earthquakes, tornadoes, sunamis, disease, famine, accidents all do their bit at keeping the numbers down. I really dont like wars at all though. Feel so sad for each one that I hear about killed in Afghanistan.

[Zeuhl]

Or a nice virus outbreak.

Influenza did for 50 - 100 million deaths after WW1

[EvianBaby]

Em, I assume that's a joke. Not a particularly funny one though in my mind.

[Sqad]

Zeuhl....LOL

Well anything seems to work better than "birth control"

[emmie]

as zeuhl has pointed out, the flu pandemic killed more people in WW1, so you don't need a war to do it. If anyone thinks that life is sustainable with this many people, then see what happens when water, food starts running short.