Population and Settlement

• Over 7.5 billion people in the world
• it is increasing by 7.3 million per year
• by approximately 200,00 per day
• 8377 per hour
• 149 per second
• 2.5 per second
• 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia and Latin America
• Life expectancy: the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the sam year. 

High: Monaco	89.52 total	85.63 men	93.58 women
#42 us	79.68 total	77.32 men	81.97 women
Low: Chad	49.81 total	48.64 men	51.03 women

Population (in bill.)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Year	1804	1927	1960	1974	1987	1999	2011
Years elapsed	10000+	123	33	14	13	12	12