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Friday, November 13, 2026Nov 13

Look around: Earth’s population has now reached 7 billion

Can you believe our world’s population has hit 7 billion! We are believed to have reached that milestone just yesterday.

(Nobody has counted all of us precisely, but it’s a pretty good guesstimate.)

There are around 312 million of us just in the United States.

Where was the 7 billionth person born? There’s no telling. But what we do know is that population concerns are extremely contradictory these days.

Yes, we have reached 7 billion people. But in many areas of the world, the trouble isn’t excess births but insufficient births.