NEET 1997 · Class 12

Reproductive Health

The present population of the world is about

  1. (A)15 trillion
  2. (B)6 billion
  3. (C)500 million
  4. (D)100 million

The NCERT line that answers it

Verbatim line

The world population which was around 2 billion (2000 million) in 1900 rocketed to about 6 billion by 2000 and 7.2 billion in 2011.

Chapter
Reproductive Health
Section
3.2 POPULATION STABILISATION AND BIRTH CONTROL
Page
2
Words matched
24 of 24

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0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states 'about 6 billion by 2000', which directly matches the correct answer option B and distinguishes it from the other options.

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