Spokesman of the German fund for world population Ute Stallmeister said that the World Population Day marks a population level of 7,057,608,000 people, ITAR-TASS reports.
Africa will reach a population level of 3.5 billion this century. An average woman in Southern Sahara gives birth to 5 chilren.
16% of people still suffer from hunger. Water problem is still topical.
The world population increases by about 80 million annually, about the population of Germany.
The World Population Day was set by the UN in 1989.