The world's seven billionth person will be born on the last day of this month, according to UN estimates. The world has added one billion people to the global population in the last 12 years. According to a Washington Post article yesterday, India's Uttar Pradesh province, which added 33 million people to the world's population over the last decade, is “already staking its claim to be the birthplace of that child.” The Post article, titled ‘Amid population boom, India hopes for ‘demographic dividend' but fears disaster,' says, India's population is getting younger every year and “the young are hungry for learning.” By 2020, the article says, “the average age of an Indian will be 29, and the country, like East Asian economies in the 1970s, is hoping to reap a ‘demographic dividend' from this army of young people as they enter the workforce and bolster the economy.”
