WHEN THE WORLD WILL BE FULL
If we apply to the future growth uf the world's population the rate of increase tint has obtained during the nineteenth century —one person per hundred per year—we tbiuin the following forecast: Millions of Number of Persons Year. Persons. to 1 Square Mile. 1900 ... 1,600 or 31 2000 ... 4,328 or 83 2100 ... 11,706 or 225 J 2200 ... 31.662 or 609 2250 ... 52,073 or 1,001 • As there are 52,000,000 square miles of laud tin the earth, and as we arc to ((insider 1,000 persons to each square mile an the equivalent of the world’s lieing full, it follows that we want a world population of 52,000.000,000 of persons to fulfil this conditiou. 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 he necessary to hang out a notice to the effect that the world is full to the Utmost limit.—* The Cosmopolitan.’ A penny is only 23 grains heavier than a sovereign, the former weighing 146 and the latter 123 grains.
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Lake County Press, Issue 981, 26 September 1901, Page 2
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