{"id":6236,"date":"2022-11-15T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:20:04","slug":"adding-another-burden-to-the-planet-the-world-population-hit-8-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=6236","title":{"rendered":"Adding another burden to the planet, the world population hit 8 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/smn-news-2866.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6237\" width=\"839\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/smn-news-2866.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/smn-news-2866-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a projection from the United Nations, The world\u2019s population reach to 8 billion people on today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the UN said the figure meant 1 billion people had been added to the global population in just 12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine. It is also the result of high and persistent levels of fertility in some countries,\u201d the UN statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a projection from the United Nations, The world\u2019s population reach to 8 billion people on today. In a statement, the UN said the figure meant 1 billion people had been added to the global population in just 12 years. \u201cThis unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[1226,18,1225],"class_list":["post-6236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-8-billion","tag-smn24","tag-world-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6239,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions\/6239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}