Each day on Earth, births minus deaths equals approximately _____ more people.

• A. 1,000,000
• B. 123,000
• C. 500,000
• D. 237,000

Answer: (D)

The daily rise in the world’s population from natural increase is the result of more births than deaths happening each day. On a typical day, this difference is about 237,000 people. That figure comes from looking at global fertility and mortality patterns: births exceed deaths by a substantial margin, but not enough to reach a million daily. Migration isn’t part of this calculation, so if you included people moving into or out of countries, the daily growth would be larger. The other numbers don’t fit because they’re either far below or well above what global birth and death rates produce on a day-to-day basis.