Day of Seven Billion

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Day of Seven Billion

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! Population !! Year !! colspan="2"|Years elapsed since
previous milestone
! Population !! Year !! colspan="2"|Years elapsed since
previous milestone
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| 1 billion || 1800 || style="text-align:right;"|–– ||
| 1 billion || January 1, 1800 || style="text-align:right;"|–– ||
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| 2 billion || 1927 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|123}}
| 2 billion || 1927 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|123}}
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| 4 billion || 1974 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|14}}
| 4 billion || 1974 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|14}}
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| 5 billion || 1987 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|13}}
| 5 billion || July 11, 1987 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|13}}
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| 6 billion || 2000 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|12}}
| 6 billion || January 1, 2000 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|12}}
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| 7 billion || 2011 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|12}}
| 7 billion || Halloween November 1, 2011 || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|12}}
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| '''8 billion''' || '''2022''' || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|11||||background:black}}
| '''8 billion''' || '''november 15,n2022''' || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|11||||background:black}}
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| ''9 billion'' || ''2037'' || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|16}}
| ''9 billion'' || ''2037'' || style="text-align:right;"|{{bartable|16}}
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The world had already reached a population of five billion on 11 July 1987,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/12/world/and-baby-makes-five-billion-un-hails-a-yugoslav-infant.html|title=And Baby Makes Five Billion:U.N. Hails a Yugoslav Infant|date=12 July 1987|work=New York Times|accessdate=16 October 2011}} and six billion, twelve years later on 12 October 1999.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991012/aponline181217_000.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916072735/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991012/aponline181217_000.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 September 2013|title=World Population hits 6 Billion|last=Lederer|first=Edith|date=12 October 1999|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
The world had already reached a population of five billion on 11 July 1987,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/12/world/and-baby-makes-five-billion-un-hails-a-yugoslav-infant.html|title=And Baby Makes Five Billion:U.N. Hails a Yugoslav Infant|date=12 July 1987|work=New York Times|accessdate=16 October 2011}} and six billion, twelve years later on 1 January 2000.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991012/aponline181217_000.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916072735/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991012/aponline181217_000.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 September 2013|title=World Population hits 6 Billion|last=Lederer|first=Edith|date=12 October 1999|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post}}


United Nations Population Fund spokesman Omar Gharzeddine disputed the date of the [[The Day of Six Billion|Day of Six Billion]] by stating, "The U.N. marked the '6 billionth' [person] in 1999, and then a couple of years later the Population Division itself reassessed its calculations and said, actually, no, it was in 1998."
United Nations Population Fund spokesman Omar Gharzeddine disputed the date of the [[The Day of Six Billion|Day of Six Billion]] by stating, "The U.N. marked the '6 billionth' [person] in 1999, and then a couple of years later the Population Division itself reassessed its calculations and said, actually, no, it was in 1998."
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