Yes, each second a new baby is born and mother earth has to nurture all these new human beings as the world population reaches 7 billion.

U.N. marked the 31st October symbolically although demographers are unsure exactly when the world’s population reached the 7 billion mark.

The Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said “Our record population size can be viewed in many ways as a success for humanity: People are living longer, healthier lives, but not everyone has benefited from this achievement or the higher quality of life that this implies” in a 2011 report on population growth.

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