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Global Number: Population Growth

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Hemma JägerOctober 25, 2011

The United Nations now believes the world's population is increasing more rapidly than previously thought. It estimates there will be 9.3 billion people on the planet by 2050.

And the German international development and advocacy organisation DSW predicts that the world's 7-billionth human will be born on October 31, 2011.
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