The French National Institute of Demographic Research published its statistics showing that the world population reached 6.5 billion on Dec.19, 2005 and would likely come to 7 billion between 2012 to 2013.
This is a bustling street in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2001. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan has declared that the deaths had outnumbered the births in Japan in 2005 and the country has become a society with a declining population.
Residents in New York line up to buy tickets to the Long Island to work Dec. 20, 2005.
In Kerala, a populous region in India, people celebrate a local festival in April, 1994 when the world population reached 5.5 billion.
On Oct. 12, 1999, the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited the baby boy in Sarajevo whose birth marks the world population hit 6 billion.
Residents fetch water in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh which is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. More than 140 million people dwell on some 140,000 square kilometers land. Every piece of square kilometer land holds nearly 1,000 people.
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