Even Guyana prepares to undertake its population and housing census next year the world’s population yesterday reached its seven billionth mark.
These announcements among other global demographic statistics were made as the United Nations Population Fund in collaboration with the Guyana Bureau of Statistics launched the State of the World Population Report at the Georgetown Club, Camp Street under the theme ‘People and Possibili-ties in a World of 7 Billion’.
Chief Statistician of the Bureau of Statistics, Lennox Benjamin, informed attendees at the launch that by