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The U.N. estimates that the world's population will pass the 7 billion mark on Monday.
Much of that growth has happened in Asia — in India and China. Those two countries have been among the world's most populous for centuries. But a demographic shift is taking place as the countries have modernized and lowered their fertility rates. Now, the biggest growth is taking place in sub-Saharan Africa.
Given the total population hitting 7 billion, this activity would be an interesting way to generate some classroom discussion about it.
Zoom in on this graphic in which the world's 7 billion population is depicted by 7,000 human figures, each representing a million people.
Where does most of the world’s population reside? Harvard grad student Bill Rankin decided to answer that question with a clever map that shows the population’s distribution by longitude and latitude. Ranking found that 88 percent of world’s population calls the Northern Hemisphere home and, on average, people live 24 degrees from the equator.
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