WHEN THE WORLD WILL BE FULL.
» If we apply to the future growth of the world's population the rate of increase ti at has obtained during the nineteenth eeutury —one person per hundred per year—we rbtain the following forecast: Millions of Number of Persons Year. Persons. to 1 Square Mile. 1900 ... 1,600 or „ ... 31 2000 ._ 4,388 or .83 \ 2100 ... 11,706 or ... ... 225 2200 ... 31,662 or ... ... 609 2250 ... 52,073 or ' 1,001 As there are 52,000,000 square miles of land on the earth, and as we are to consider 1,000 persons to each square mile as the equivalent of the world's Deing full, it follows that we want a world population of 52,000,000,000 of persons to fulfil this condition. A glance at the above statement of growth in the world's population shows that the necessary growth from 1,600,000,000 in the year 1900 to the 52,000,000,000 of persons wanted for our purpose will eventuate in the year 2250, almost three hundred and fifty years ahead of the present time, when, as the illustration suggests, it may be necessary to hang out a notice to the effect that the world is full to the utmost limit.—' lb© Cosmojgolitao,'
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Evening Star, Issue 11656, 17 September 1901, Page 7
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194WHEN THE WORLD WILL BE FULL. Evening Star, Issue 11656, 17 September 1901, Page 7
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