Population

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7415.628-a

BMJ 2003;327:628 (13 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7415.628-a

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Population

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One of the strengths of the internet is that it can provideup to the minute data about events and developments, both locallyand globally. As the world and information about it changes,so can the internet. It is not surprising, therefore, that theinternet is full of sites about the changing size and shapeof the world's population, a theme of a book review in thisweek's BMJ (p 626).

www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop shows a counter totallingthe increasing world population second by second. It is a classiccase of six more babies born in the time it took you to readthis. It is also possible to set the date and time to see theworld's population at any given time since 1970. The differencebetween then and now is startling.

The site of the United Nations Population Fund (www.unfpa.org)provides information about its aims and . . . [Full text of this article]

Andrew Iles, Clegg scholar

BMJ ailes@bmj.com