World Population Day: Interesting facts about world population

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Since 1989, the global community has been observing ‘World Population Day’ on July 11.

The day is aimed at focusing our attention on the importance of population issues. Here are a few interesting facts about population:

· There are over 7.4 billion people on earth today

· The most common first name in the world is Mohammed.

· If Facebook were a country, it would be the most populous nation on earth

· According to the UN’s data for 2015, around 21.3 million people across the world are refugees.

· 54 per cent of them come from three countries: Syria Afghanistan Somalia

· 65.3 million have been forced out of their homes. Among the 21.3 million refugees, over half of them are under the age of 18

· 10 million people have been denied a nationality and access to basic rights such as education, healthcare, employment and freedom of movement

· It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number and it took 40 years for the next 3 billion.

· Over 65,000 Japanese are 100 years old or older.

· The population of London in 2015 exceeds its 1939 population by only one person.

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