Michael Barone

World population news

By U.S. News Staff

February 22, 2006 RSS Feed Print

The Census Bureau Web site homepage has a population clock. As I write, it shows the U.S. population at 298,163,006 and the world population at 6,499,313,539. A demographer friend tells me that the world should reach the 6.5 billion mark at about 7:18 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 26. My friend estimates that it will take seven to nine years for the world population to hit 7 billion.

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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