This week on the 11th of July was the UN observance known as “World Population Day”. The observance came about in 1989 largely after the huge public response to “Five Billion day”, the day (11th July) in 1987 when the world’s population hit five billion.
This is the time the world comes together, as designated by the United Nations, to focus their attention and seek to raise awareness on the urgency and importance of population issues, including their relations to the environment and human development.
Our world now currently holds its population at 7.8 billion people!