The planet reaches 7.000 million

There is reason to rejoice: ONU

The world population will exceed 7.000 on Monday million, according to UN estimates, underscoring the need to redistribute wealth to combat growing inequality.

Each country held differently this new record population explosion: some will choose a baby whose birth symbolically mark the event, and organized rallies and other festivities.

In Zambia, will perform a musical contest, and in Vietnam, a concert entitled "7 Billion: Counting On Each Other" (7.000 million people supporting each other). In Russia, authorities handed out gifts to some newborns, while in Ivory Coast, local actors will offer a show.

However, for the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the day that marks the presence of 7.000 million people is no reason to rejoice, and that newborns arrive in a contradictory world, where there is a while "lots of food and 1.000 million people go to bed hungry every night."

 "Many people enjoy lavish lifestyles while many others live in poverty," Ban said in an interview with Time magazine.

Monday's demographic record should be seen as "a call to action," he urged.

The new population figure represents an increase of 1.000 million persons with respect to which it was felt just after midnight on October 12, 1999, when the UN appointed a newborn Bosnian Adnan Mevic, as the 6,000 th earthling million.

The then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, was photographed at a hospital in Sarajevo, holding in her arms Mevic.

The family lives today Mevic mired in poverty, which explains, in part, that this year there will be a symbolic picture with the head of the UN to capture the demographic record.

"It's not about numbers. These people," Ban said at a school in New York last week.

 "Seven billion people who need enough food. Enough energy. Good life chances for employment and education. Rights and freedoms. Freedom of expression. Freedom of raising her own son in peace and security," said .

Addressing students, the UN chief added: "Everything you want for yourself, but multiplied by 7.000 million."

 Ban will take this same message to the G20, which brings together developed and emerging economies in the world next week in southern France.

he growing population, coupled with the global economic crisis could force the world leaders prepare for more protests as the Arab Spring and demonstrations anti Wall Street.

 "The strength of the consensus of popular protest is an expression of an obvious fact: the growing economic uncertainty, market volatility and the increasingly stark inequalities have reached a critical point," Ban said in a letter to leaders G20, the summit will be held the next 3 and 4 November.

According to UN estimates, about two babies are born every second, so the figure of 7.000 million increase further in the next decade, reaching 10.000 million by 2100.

 United Nations forecasts that India will become the world's most populous country by 2025, when residents join about 1,500 million, surpassing China.

Meanwhile, experts agree that the world face enormous challenges to fight poverty and protect the environment.

A report by the Fund UN Population Fund (UNFPA) stressed that the world will face increasing obstacles to creating jobs for future generations, especially in poor countries, and that climate change and population explosion fanning the crisis of famine and drought .

At the same time, the aging of the population is a problem for Japan and European countries, the impacts of migration policies affect health and employment, the report warns.

Via: univision