# 6 Billion And no Party?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-billion-and-no-party/2917>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 31, 1999, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-billion-and-no-party/2917 "1999-08-31T10:01:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-billion-and-no-party/2917/1 "1999-08-31T10:01:00Z")

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I was just at the US Census site.  
It said the world population is  
about 6,009,000,000 which means it  
must have recently turned 6  
Billion. Why no big deal like when  
it turned 5 Billion.

BTW the US pop was est 273,000,000

U.S. Census Bureau  
Address:[http://www.census.gov/](http://www.census.gov/)

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-billion-and-no-party/2917/2 "1999-08-31T10:05:00Z")

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Try [www.census.gov](http://www.census.gov)

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-billion-and-no-party/2917/3 "1999-08-31T10:05:00Z")

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try [www.census.gov](http://www.census.gov)

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-billion-and-no-party/2917/4 "1999-08-31T13:19:00Z")

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## Easy answer, Markxxx, There was no party because everyone was too busy arguing whether the party should be for 6,000,000,000 or for 6,000,000,001. Pity.

Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine

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**Author:** ![E1skeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3da27b/32.png) [@E1skeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E1skeptic)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-billion-and-no-party/2917/5 "1999-08-31T13:44:00Z")

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The “celebration” will be held on Oct-12.

Check the Zero Population Growth website.

[www.zpg.org](http://www.zpg.org)