ok, so how many people are born each day vs how many people kick the bucket .... ?

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

...... and based on that, how many people will we have on the Planet in 20 years? :messedup


...... and what kind of shortages will we suffer other than oil, water and trees? http://img3.harmony-central.com/acapella/ubb/redface.gif

[DiazDude]

I've seen it broken down as Crude Birth Rate & Crude Death Rate per 1000 people world wide.
2007 stats were 20.3 births per 1000 people or 136 million/yr and 9.6 deaths per 1000 people or 64.3 million/yr.

[Mike Anderson]

Former demographer here, I can answer the first two questions.

Total births around 135 million per year (about 370,000 per day).
Total deaths around 60 million per year (about 164,000 per day).

So the world population increases by about 206,000 people every day -- pretty amazing, huh?

Current world population is about 6.7 billion. Forecasts put it at a little over 8 billion in twenty years.

Sources:

http://www.un.org/popin/data.html
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2006.htm

The third question is much harder to answer.

[~Abstract~]

Hopefully we won't need petrol...

Clean water will be harder to come by...I don't think we'll ever "run out" of trees.

After that...it's probably some obscure metal that's a catalyst for building nanotubes...or essential in the manufacture of 3rd generation solar panels or something (key ingredient of Flux Capacitors).

[orogeny]

it depends. is the bucket tweed?

:BEER

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

Former demographer here, I can answer the first two questions.

Total births around 135 million per year (about 370,000 per day).
Total deaths around 60 million per year (about 164,000 per day).

So the world population increases by about 206,000 people every day -- pretty amazing, huh?

Current world population is about 6.7 billion. Forecasts put it at a little over 8 billion in twenty years.

Sources:

http://www.un.org/popin/data.html
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2006.htm

The third question is much harder to answer.

Excellent! I love good accurate info.
:messedup
Yes, the third question is the brain tweeker.

[Bradd]

What ever the numbers, we need to start looking for a new home.

[rgsss14]

What ever the numbers, we need to start looking for a new home.

Time to colonize the Moon.

[Alvis]

It's gone up considerably since Don't Fear The Reaper was new

[soniq7]

Heres a rather interesting site that you can trip on for a while Tweedbucket.

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

[DiazDude]

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d136/diazdude/soylent_l.jpg

[Sandy]

Former demographer here, I can answer the first two questions.

Total births around 135 million per year (about 370,000 per day).
Total deaths around 60 million per year (about 164,000 per day).

So the world population increases by about 206,000 people every day -- pretty amazing, huh?

Current world population is about 6.7 billion. Forecasts put it at a little over 8 billion in twenty years.

Sources:

http://www.un.org/popin/data.html
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2006.htm

The third question is much harder to answer.

Have you thought of moonlighting as a reference librarian! :)

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

Heres a rather interesting site that you can trip on for a while Tweedbucket.

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf




:messedup

[Mike Anderson]

Have you thought of moonlighting as a reference librarian! :)

I only have that kind of knowledge for certain areas, e.g. demography, since that's what my PhD is in.

When I took my oral exam for the PhD, I had to have all those kinds of facts memorized.

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

I only have that kind of knowledge for certain areas, e.g. demography, since that's what my PhD is in.

When I took my oral exam for the PhD, I had to have all those kinds of facts memorized.




BTW, the :messedup was for the predicted 8 billion in 20 years :YinYang .... things are really getting crowded.

[TRIODEROB]

what I want to know is how many kick the

"tweedbucket" ?


:worthless

[stevieboy]

Don't forget to factor in the alien abductions--at least the ones who don't get brought back.

[amigo30]

Heres a rather interesting site that you can trip on for a while Tweedbucket.

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

That has got to be one of the coolest websites I've ever seen..