POPULATION GROWTH
* Natural Increase per :
- -----WORLD-------------U.S.-----
- year - 88,363,000 --- 1,656,000
- month - 7,363,583 -- 138,000
- week - 1,694,628 ----31,846
- day - 242,090 -------- 4,537
- hour - 10,087 -------- 189
- minute - 168 ---------- 3.2
- second - 2.8 ---------- --
*Population Reference Bureau, 1995 World Population Data Sheet, News Release, May 23, 1995
*U.S. Bureau of the Census figures for 1994. They do not include net immigration which is estimated to add at least 800,000 each year (legally) to the U.S. population.
"Washington, DC -- If the population of any animal on earth was growing as fast as the human
population, it would be seen as a catastrophe. Imagine what additional billions of horses or
pigeons or snakes would do to our environment. Yet we humans continue to add a
hundred million of our kind to the planet each year at a time when there are nearly 6 billion of
us already. In the next decade, the population of the earth will grow by 900 million--that's the
equivalent of adding another China!"
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