Global Overpopulation Brain Snack

from Suite101:

In 1 second: 5 babies born
2 people die
Increase of 3 humans every second.
In the same second, 1.5 acres of rainforest get cut down.
This is 250,000 people per day. Every four days a new Dallas or Detroit is added to the earth.

from Overpopulation.org:

The world population is predicted to reach the seven billion mark on Oct 18, 2012. World population hit the six billion mark in June 1999, over 3.5 times the population at the beginning of the 20th century and roughly double its size in 1960. The time for the global population to grow from 5 billion to 6 billion, a dozen years, was shorter than the interval between any of the previous billions. The population today is nearly four times the number in 1900. Behind that increase is a vast gulf in birth and death rates around the world. February 25, 2006 Indo-Asian News Service

Oct 98: The world is adding a city the size of Los Angeles every two weeks.