This year world population will exceed 7 billion persons.
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Global economic growth, combined with a booming world population (passing 7 billion last year), has put unprecedented stress on fragile ecosystems.
Clare Short has warned that two-thirds of the World's population could be suffering water shortages by the year 2025 if current standards are allowed to continue.
This means that on average, every year for the next 50 years, the world population will grow by about the number of people that live now in Italy, and total population growth over the next 50 years will be more than twice the size of the current population in China.
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The world's population is still rapidly increasing by around 78m people a year.
So-called honor killings, in which members of a family kill relatives because of behavior that they say shames the family, claim about 5, 000 lives a year around the world, according to the United Nations Population Fund.
At some point next year, probably during the month of October, the world human population will pass the 6 billion mark for the first time.
About 38% of the world's population uses the internet in 2013, up from about 35% last year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency dedicated to information and communication technology.
The United Nations Population Fund estimates that, across the world, as many as 5, 000 women a year may be fatal victims.
The paper also tracked word usage through time (each year, for instance, 1% of the world's English-speaking population switches from "sneaked" to "snuck").
The 3.2m football fans from around the world who attended this year's World Cup tournament in South Africa were twice as numerous as Qatar's entire population, which anyway shrinks during the summer months, when the matches are to be held.
Mass hunger looms: the UN's World Food Programme reckons that, in the new year, it must provide food for 5.5m in a population that has shrunk, through disease and emigration, from about 12m probably to less than 9m.
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