A survey today indicates that the population of the Greater Dublin area in ten years times is likely to be two million people. The forecast is made by Brian Hughes, Consultant Chartered Surveyor and Urban Economics lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Mr Hughes says that the capital may have 300,000 more people than the Government currently estimates by the year 2011.
The Government estimates that Dublin's population could rise to more than 1.6m in the next decade, but the Society of Chartered Surveyors says that this figure is seriously flawed. They believe that the capital's population is more likely to be close to 2 million by 2011. They are pointing this out now so that proper planning can be put in place, to ensure that Dublin's current housing and infrastructural problems do not continue well into the next century.
However, even with an increasing population, Ireland accounts for just 0.0625% of the world's population, which today officially reaches 6bn. An 8-pound baby boy born at the University Clinical centre in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo overnight, has been deemed by the United Nations as the symbolic 6 billionth person on earth. There are now more people alive than have ever lived and with three babies born every second, the world's population now stands at 6,000,097,920.
