{"id":14078,"date":"2015-08-10T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14078"},"modified":"2015-08-05T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T23:02:22","slug":"united-nations-releases-new-revision-of-its-population-estimates-another-billion-within-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/united-nations-releases-new-revision-of-its-population-estimates-another-billion-within-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Releases new Revision of its Population Estimates&#8230;another Billion within 15 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: According to the results of the 2015 Revision, the world population reached 7.3 billion as of mid- 2015 (table 1), implying that the world has added approximately one billion people in the span of the last twelve years. Sixty per cent of the global population lives in Asia (4.4 billion), 16 per cent in Africa (1.2 billion), 10 per cent in Europe (738 million), 9 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean (634 million), and the remaining 5 per cent in Northern Ameri<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ca (358 million) and Oceania (39 million). China (1.4 billion) and India (1.3 billion) remain the two largest countries of the world, both with more than 1 billion people, representing 19 and 18 per cent of the world\u2019s population, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>The world population is projected to increase by more than one billion people within the next 15 years, reaching 8.5 billion in 2030, and to increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/development\/desa\/population\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read More.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/development\/desa\/population\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14079\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WPP2015.jpg\" alt=\"WPP2015\" width=\"504\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WPP2015.jpg 504w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WPP2015-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/development\/desa\/population\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/development\/desa\/population\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: According to the results of the 2015 Revision, the world population reached 7.3 billion as of mid- 2015 (table 1), implying that the world has added approximately one billion people in the span of the last twelve years. Sixty per cent of the global population lives in Asia (4.4 billion), 16 per cent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14080,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions\/14080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}