The Philippines' Commission on Population and Development selected Vinice Mabansag, a baby girl born in Manila, as the symbolic eight billionth person on Earth.
The Philippines Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) chose our baby as their symbolic 8 billionth baby, and brought a banner, cake and toys. We decided to name her Vinice after Vincent's nickname, Vin.
On November 15, 2022, according to the demographers at the United Nations Population Division, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born.
On the Day of Seven Billion, the group Plan International symbolically marked the birth of the 7 billionth human with a ceremony in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where a birth certificate was presented to a newly born baby girl, Nargis Kumar, in order to protest sex-selective abortion in the state.
Matej Gašpar from Zagreb, Croatia (then SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person alive on Earth. The honor went to Zagreb because the 1987 Summer Universiade was taking place in the city at the time.
Sadia Sultana Oishee, an 11-year-old from Bangladesh, who is the seventh-billionth child in the world, is aware of her fame. She was born in 2011, and according to her parents, her birth was nothing short of an event, with politicians and television crews swarming around her mother to get a look at her.
The UN estimated that the world population reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It was another 123 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960.
The 3 billionth baby was a Cold War baby, born in approximately 1959. If he or she was a westerner, baby No. 3 billion would have been a baby boomer, part of the generation born after World War II.
The United Nations Population Fund designated 12 October 1999, as the approximate day on which world population reached six billion following the birth of Adnan Mević, the first son of Fatima Helać and Jasminko Mević, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was officially designated The Day of Six Billion.
A baby girl born in Tondo, Manila, is being considered as the symbolic eighth billion person in the world. Vinice Mabansag was born at Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital at 1:29 am (local time).
The projected world population on Jan. 1, 2023, is 7,942,645,086, an increase of 73,772,634, or 0.94%, from New Year's Day 2022. During January 2023, 4.3 births and 2.0 deaths are expected worldwide every 1 second.
Earth's capacity
Many scientists think Earth has a maximum carrying capacity of 9 billion to 10 billion people. [ How Do You Count 7 Billion People?]
World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100. The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new United Nations report being launched today.
About 385,000 babies are born each day according to the UN. That adds up to more than 140 million a year.
Born on July 11, 1987, Matej Gaspar was the five billionth child, while Adnan Mevic, who was born on October 12, 1999, was the six billionth child.
World Population: A baby girl is being deemed as the symbolic eighth billion person in the world.
October 31, 2011 • The U.N. says today symbolically marks the moment when the world's population reaches 7 billion.
“I can't believe she is the world's seven billionth.” Danica's name means morning star. She is a second child for Camille Dalura and Florante Camacho. Since approximately 250 people are born every single minute, it had to have been pretty difficult for the U.N. to choose which ones would receive such an honor.
World population did not reach one billion until 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion in 1927, 33 years to reach 3 billion in 1960, 14 years to reach 4 billion in 1974 and 13 years to reach 5 billion in 1987.
World population milestones by the billions
This is when the United Nations estimates that the world's population reached each billion milestone: one billion in 1804; two billion in 1927 (123 years later); three billion in 1960 (33 years later);
World's 5th billionth child
Born in July 1987, in Zagreb, the capital of the Republic of Croatia, Matej Gaspar was officially regarded as the world's fifth billionth baby by the UN.
It would take you 761 years to count to 8 billion. Do you like bananas? It would take you 200 lifetimes to eat 8 billion bananas. Crowd 8 billion people together, and they'd almost cover the land area of Alaska.
By 1650, the world's population rose to about 500 million—not a large increase from the estimate of 300 million in 1 C.E. The average annual rate of growth was actually lower in this period than the rate suggested for 8000 B.C.E. to 1 C.E.
Discoveries now suggest modern Homo sapiens existed much earlier, around 200,000 B.C.E. This major change in our understanding of human existence spurred new calculations and consultations with experts, resulting in an estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth.