World population to reach 8 billion this year - UN
Still, the UN warns that populations are decreasing worldwide • by 2050, senior citizens will outnumber children for the first time in world history • Guterres: "our world is in peril"
PEOPLE SUNBATHE on the beach in the Italian town of Stintino, at the tip of Sardinia, Italy. The island is one of the Blue Zones, where a large segment of the population lives beyond 100.(photo credit: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)ByBEN ZION GADUpdated: