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There are currently over six billion people on the planet–we passed the six billion mark on October 12th, 1999! A few more interesting facts: every second five people are born and two people die, for a net gain of three people. But we can’t keep going at that rate; the UN estimates that we’ll take another 120 years to double our population.
