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World Population Day: 11 July

An annual event that marks the date when the world's population reached 5 billion (11 July 1987). There are now 6.4 billion people in the world, and there will probably be 8 billion by 2030.

For background information and details of the annual theme for the Day, visit the UN Population Fund's World Population Day website.

The theme for World Population Day 2010 is Everyone Counts. This theme aims to emphasise the importance of data for development, foster an understanding of why reliable data is so crucial to progress, and encourage people to participate in census and other data collection efforts. For further information on this theme, including a short animated video clip, visit the World Population Day 2010 website. 

For further ideas, have a read through Fight Poverty: Educate Girls, the article we wrote for World Population Day 2009. You could also browse through the resources on listed on the Global Dimension database under the topics of 'Population' and Millennium Development Goals.

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