Success has exceeded expectations, and the captive population passed three hundred last year, far ahead of schedule.
Bottom line: world population passes seven billion sometime in the last year or two or the next year or two, most likely".
As the world population passes seven billion, we ask readers to show the newest generation what the world looks like today.
Last year, for example, all of the English learners passed Virginia's writing exam; by comparison, 97percentt of the general population passed.
By the 1880's, when Manhattan's population passed a million, wealthier New Yorkers began moving north and developers put up hundreds of large apartment buildings and brownstones.
LAST November Oklahoma, where Muslims account for less than 1% of the population, passed a law forbidding its courts from considering Muslim law in their rulings.
"You could have one small subgroup not doing well and every other subgroup doing very well, with 90percentt of the students in the school population passing their exams, and yet they would have to be on this list," Mr. Sanders said.
The world population passed the 7bn mark last year and the estimate is that it could reach 9bn by the middle of the century, putting strains on resources and leading to increased conflict.
Perhaps the answer lies in the numbers game that prevails in any dating venue: once the population passed a certain threshold, it was more likely that each parakeet could find a mate and make a home in the suburbs.
In 1994, the last year it did so, only 49% of blacks, who make up three-quarters of the population, passed the school-leaving examination; the equivalent figure for whites was 97%.This is not exactly the stuff of economic miracles.
