Points to Ponder

• Today at 7:16 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) the population of Earth will hit 6.5 billion.

• About one of every five people on Earth is Chinese.
• I have two parents and two siblings, and not one of us is Chinese.
• 4.4 babies are born every second.
• 396 women give birth every time I microwave popcorn.
• Four times as many people live now as lived in 1900.
• Most of the people alive in 1900 are no longer contributing members of society.
• People in poor countries have more children than people in rich countries.
• People in rich countries have more edible underwear than people in poor countries.
• If every person on Earth jumped up at precisely the same moment, I'd be very surprised.