GETTING STARTED: THE WORLD FACTS

This article is our first published article and we are getting started with the world. Here are some facts about the world. Enjoy reading! The World is made up of 7 Continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, North America, Australasia/Oceania  and Antarctica.

LANGUAGES

Mandarin Chinese 11.82 %,

Spanish 5.77 %,

English 4.67 %,

Hindi 3.62 %,

Arabic 3.3 %,

Portuguese 2.83 %,

Bengali 2.69 %,

Russian 2.33 %,

Japanese 1.7 %,

Javanese 1.15 %,

Standard German 1.09 % (2014 est.)

FACTS :

Percentages are for "first language" speakers only; the six UN languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, and Spanish (Castilian) - are the mother tongue or second language of about half of the world's population, and are the official languages in more than half the states in the world; some 150 to 200 languages have more than a million speakers. There are an estimated 7,100 languages spoken in the world; approximately 80% of these languages are spoken by less than 100,000 people; about 140 languages are spoken by less than 10 people; communities that are isolated from each other in mountainous regions often develop multiple languages; Papua New Guinea, for example, boasts about 839 separate languages

note 3: approximately 2,300 languages are spoken in Asia, 2,140, in Africa, 1,300 in the Pacific, 1,060 in the Americas, and 280 in Europe (2015)

RELIGIONS

Christian 31.4 %

Muslim 23.2 %

Hindu 15 %

Buddhist 7.1%

Folk religions 5.9 %

Jewish 0.2 %

Other 0.8 %

Unaffiliated 16.4 % (2010 est.)

POPULATION

The Population of the world is 7,256,490,011 (July 2015 est.) I guess i am the last i am among the last 011, lol .Top ten most populous countries (in millions):

1. China -1.361 billion

2. India - 1.251 billion

3. United States - 321.36 million

4. Indonesia - 255.99 million

5. Brazil - 204.26 million

6. Pakistan - 199.09 million

7. Nigeria - 181.56 million

8. Bangladesh - 168.96 million

9. Russia - 142.3 million

10.Japan - 126.4 million

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  MEDIAN AGE:
  total: 29.9 years
  male: 29.1 years
  female: 30.6 years (2015 est.)
  POPULATION GROWTH RATE:
  The rate is 1.08%
  note: this rate results in about 149 net additions to the worldwide population every minute or 2.5 every second (2015 est.)
  LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH:
  total population: 68.7 years
  male: 66.7 years
  female: 70.8 years (2015 est.)
  thats cool isn’t it??
  BIRTH RATE:
  18.6 births/1,000 population
  note: this rate results in about 256 worldwide births per minute or 4.3 births every second (2015 est.)
  DEATH RATE:
  7.8 deaths/1,000 population
  note: this rate results in about 108 worldwide deaths per minute or 1.8 deaths every second (2015 est.)

  
  

  
  
  
  

AIRPORTS

total airports - 41,821 (2013)
top ten by passengers:
Atlanta (ATL) - 94,431,224;
Beijing (PEK) - 83,712,355;
London (LHR) - 72,368,061;
Tokyo (HND) - 68,906,509;
Chicago (ORD) - 66,777,161;
Los Angeles (LAX) - 66,667,619; Dubai (DXB) - 66,431,533;
Paris (CDG) - 62,052,917;
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) -; 60,470,507
Jakarta (CGK) - 60,137,347 (2013)


HELIPORTS :
6,524 (2013)


RAILWAYS:
total: 1,148,186 km (2013)


ROADWAYS
total: 64,285,009 km (2013)


WATERWAYS
2,293,412 km

top ten longest rivers:
Nile (Africa) 6,693 km;
Amazon (South America) 6,436 km; Mississippi-Missouri (North America) 6,238
Yenisey-Angara (Asia) 5,981 km;
Ob-Irtysh (Asia) 5,569 km;
Yangtze (Asia) 5,525 km;
Yellow (Asia) 4,671 km;
Amur (Asia) 4,352 km;
Lena (Asia) 4,345 km;
Congo (Africa) 4,344 km


READ CONTINENTS: EUROPE, ASIA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, AUSTRALASIA, ANTARCTICA


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CREDIT : GOOGLE , WORLDFACT.