The Latest World Population Facts and Figures Were Just Released
Pop Quiz: how many people are in the world right now?
The answer is 7.6 billion.
That data point and much more are contained in a just-released report called "World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision," published by the UN. The report contains all sorts of facts and figures that are both interesting on its own, but also extremely consequential to unde…
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