the population of the world has been increasing faster . in 10,100 B.C there were probably only 10 million people in A.D 1 there were 300 million it took 1,157 years for the world population to reach 625 million in 1850 only one hundred years later the population reached the figure of 1,300 million in 1950 the figure had more than doubled to reach 2,510 million in 2000 the world's population was about 6,6 billion. the explosion of population has caused many problems for the world such as shortage of foods lack of hospitals and school illiterary and low living standards it's time government and international organization did something so that the world population growth can start to decrease instead of continuing to increase