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Feel Good World News 15th November 2022

World Population
Reaches 8 Billion
According to the United Nations (UN), the
world’s population has now reached eight
billion!
It’s impossible to actually count everyone in
the world. However, the UN projects that the
Photo: A crowd.
eight-billionth person was born today.
Eight billion people means eight billion continues to rise.
imaginations. Eight billion dreams. Eight billion António Guterres is the UN Secretary-General.
interesting possibilities. He has said that we should celebrate reaching
Stacked one on top of each other, eight eight billion. “This is an occasion to celebrate our
billion people would create a tower so tall that diversity, recognise our common humanity, and
it’d stretch to the Moon and all the way back marvel at advancements in health”.
again 17 times! Because there are more people on Earth,
it doesn’t mean that
Where do the most people live? everywhere in the
world is getting more
• Roughly half the world’s population lives in Asia. The most crowded, though.
highly-populated country in the world is China. The second- As some parts of the
most is India. Around 1.4 billion people live in each country. world become more
populated, other parts
• The US has the next-largest population, followed by become less so.
Indonesia, Pakistan and Nigeria. The number of
people living in China
200 years ago, the US was still quite a new is beginning to go down. However, India’s
country. Napoleon had recently lost at Waterloo population is increasing.
and George IV was the King of England. At that Soon, India will overtake China as the most
time, there were around one billion people living highly-populated country in the world.
on the planet. Maybe it’s there that a family is greeting
It had taken humanity hundreds of thousands the eight billionth person on our planet for the
of years to reach that huge number. first time today. Or maybe that birthday is
Only 100 years later, that number happening just around the corner from you.
had doubled!
Even more incredibly, another 100 years on Glossary
and it has gone up another six billion! projects Expects; estimates.
The UN predicts it will go past 10 billion by
humanity People; humans.
2080 but will then peak.
Two of the main reasons why the number of peak Reach the highest that something
humans skyrocketed over the last 200 years are will get to.
that we are living longer, healthier lives.
In the last three decades alone, global life life The number of years a person is
expectancy has gone up nine years and it expectancy expected to live for.

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Questions
1. What is currently the second-most populated country in the world?


2. Look at the quote by António Guterres. Which of the following definitions is closest in
meaning to the word ‘marvel’ as it is used in the quote? (tick one)

Stare at something.
Superheroes.
Be impressed and feel wonder in something.
Somebody excellent.

3. Which of the following alternative headlines does not summarise the article? (tick two)

Global Population Reaches Seven Billion

Earth’s Humans Tops Ten Billion
Number of Humans Reaches Eight Billion
Eight Billion and Counting - Population Reaches Milestone

4. Look at this sentence: Two of the main reasons why the number of humans skyrocketed
over the last 200 years are that we are living longer, healthier lives. Give the meaning of
the word ‘skyrocketed ‘ as it is used in this sentence.





5. Tick to show whether the statement is true or false according to the article.
True False
The world population has gone up by six billion people in the last
100 years.
The US has the third largest population of any country in the world.
The UN predicts that the world population will eventually reach 11 billion.
Roughly one-third of the world’s population lives in Asia.

6. Roughly how many people lived in the world in 1922?



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