How big was the world's population when you were born?

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How big was the population when you were born? Compare that with today's world population. Imagine how crowded the world has become today...

 

How big was the world's population when you were born?

• Martin Shuttleworth, Jonathan Richards, Christine Oliver, Mariana Santos
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 October 2011 09.14 BST

 

The world's population is due to hit 7bn this October. Use the box below to find out the world's population on your birth date, and how different countries were growing at that time

Enter your birth date [day/month/year] in the given this link then click "submit ".

Note: because of the data we're using, we're only able to handle birthdays after 1951 at the moment.)

 

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