What do all these people have in common?

Read on for an interesting starter question which will hopefully stimulate some interesting class discussions around this topical issue…

The answer is that all these babies were nominated as the world’s seventh billion human being, on the day the United Nations estimates that the total world population will have reached this new height. There’s an interesting BBC News video here which explains more about this momentous occasion.

Unit 1 Micro: A World of Seven Billion People [30 Dec 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Development Issues: The Baby Boom in Zambia [29 Dec 2011]
7 billion people - where do you fit in? [31 Oct 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: A Widening Regional Divide in Life Expectancy [19 Oct 2011]
Consequences of One Child Policy Play Out [30 Apr 2011]
Consumption Graphic [19 Jan 2011]
Engineering Approaches to Growing Populations [13 Jan 2011]
The Joy of Stats - Brilliant Hans Rosling Presentation [30 Nov 2010]
Intergenerational injustice? [5 Mar 2010]
An older population requires a change of mindset [7 Oct 2009]
Rising Birth Rate pushes UK Population Growth to 47 year high [28 Aug 2009]
Challenges and opportunities of an expanding population [17 Apr 2009]
Back to the cave or a brave new world? [22 Sep 2008]
Ageing but not ailing [26 Aug 2008]
Grey hairs, pensions and the trend growth rate [4 Aug 2008]
Waist Check [17 Jun 2008]
Going Up [17 Apr 2008]
Lie down and think of the President [7 Mar 2008]
Malthus’ Revenge? [6 Mar 2008]

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