According to the U.N., the world will hit eight billion in population today at 1 P.M. Central. We were at seven billion in 2011, and it is projected that we will not hit nine billion until 2037. The world did not get to one billion people until 1804, two billion was achieved in 1927, three billion in 1960, four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987, and six billion in 1999.
