This week the world’s population is set to reach 7 billion! It seems like just yesterday when we celebrated the 6 billion mark the birth of Adnan Mević, the first son of Fatima Helać and Jasminko Mević, in Bosnia. It took only 50 years for the world’s population to double and only 12 years to grow from 6 to 7 billion.   

It has become the regions less able to support themselves that have always produced the highest population growth rate. Then the reverse happens in the modern developed countries. Both have negative affects for future generations. Switzerland seems to have hit the perfect balance between birth rate and economic growth. They have a current birth rate of 9.53 /1000 and they have just emerged as the highest income bracket per household in the world with the average family earning $500 000 per year.  

Currently top of the birth rate charts is DRC with 49.6 / 1000 with Japan coming in with the lowest of 7.42 / 1000. South Africa rank number 92 with a birth rate of 19.93 / 1000.

Can we survive having 7 billion people on our planet? Surely the issue of sustainability in education, environment and economics needs to be addressed in a big way. What will our future hold for us? Is entrepreneurship not emerging as the number 1 solution for us all?