Blog Day Twenty-One: Population and Settlement

Today in class we started to take notes on Population and settlement. Here are some notes I took:

• 7.6 billion people live on the planet
• 2.5 people are born every second 
• 149 people are born every minute 
• 8377 are born every hour 
• 200,00 are born everyday
• 90% of this reproduction takes place in developing countries such as Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America

We also talked about how sad some of the information in this unit will be. For example when we looked at the world population we saw that one person dies every 11 seconds, which is very sad when you think about it. I am excited to start our new. It seems like there will be lots of interesting, fun and maybe even sometimes sad information that we will learn about.