With Danica, we are already 7,000 million

Asia, the continent where two thirds of the world population, man symbolically welcomed 7,000 million number, a small Filipino named Danica whose birth was celebrated in Manila and highlights the challenges posed planetary population growth. 

The 6,000 billion reached in 1999 and then elected UN Adnan nevus, a child born in Sarajevo, as a representative of the anniversary. This time, the UN chose not to appoint someone in advance, and several countries planned to announce the arrival of her own baby.

Danica May Camacho, born on Sunday, two minutes before midnight, in the Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, a public institution of the Philippine capital, is a splendid small 2.5 kilos. His parents, Florante Dalura Camille Camacho, were congratulated by United Nations representatives took him a cake.

Struggle for 7,000 million inhabitants 

"It's very beautiful. I do not believe it's just the 7,000 million inhabitants of the planet," said Camille Dalura excited in the delivery room, invaded by the press. Danica will receive a scholarship and their parents a sum of money to open a store.

Despite this recognition of United Nations, the Kaliningrad authorities have indicated that the human being on Earth 7,000 million is Russian and is called Peter. Meanwhile, authorities in the region of Kamchatka in the Far East of Russia, declared their own inhabitants 7,000. million, Alexander, whose parents received an apartment. 

For its part, the NGO Plan International says the 7,000 million inhabitants and is called Nargis is a girl born in the teeming Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The world and its 7,000 million people are a complex set of trends and paradoxes", but population growth is part of the "essential truths worldwide," said the representative of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) in the Philippines, Ugochi Daniels. 

According to UNFPA, the Philippines is the twelfth most populous country, with 94.9 million inhabitants, 54% ce them under 25 years.

China is the most populous country, with 1,350 million inhabitants, followed by India, with 1,240 million.

 In total, Asia accounts for 4,200 million inhabitants and should reach 5,200 million in 2052 before declining gradually. But the strongest increase occurred in Africa, where the population exceeded one billion early in 2009 and 2,000 million are expected in 2044.

The challenge of feeding 7,000 million

Poverty, famine, disease, conflict ... The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon to mark the event with a press conference, estimated that the move to the 7,000 million should not be taken lightly.

 "This is not a simple matter of numbers. Is a human story," he said last week at a school in New York.

For poorer countries, governments will be confronted with the difficulty of finding work to many young people reach the market. Besides global warming, drought and uncontrolled explosion of mega-cities, warns UNFPA. 

"Seven billion people need food. Energy. Interesting offers in terms of employment and education. Rights and freedom. Freedom of expression. Freedom to educate their children in peace and security," Ban Ki-moon stressed.

A birth rate of two per second, the UNFPA predicts that the population will continue increasing to reach 9,300 million in 2050 and over 10,000 million by the end of the century. 

In 2025, India will be the world's most populous country, ahead of China with 1,500 million.

Via: elmundo