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A small mountain, slightly larger than Stone Mountain in Georgia, United States, would weigh (have a mass of) a billion tons. There are billions of worker ants in the largest ant colony in the world, [10] which covers almost 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of the Mediterranean coast. In 1804, the world population was one billion.
(1 000 000 000; 1000 3; short scale: one billion; long scale: one thousand million, or one milliard) ISO: giga- (G) Transportation – Cars: As of 2018 [update] , there are approximately 1.4 billion cars in the world, corresponding to around 18% of the human population.
The word 'billion' is now used internationally to mean 1,000 million and it would be confusing if British Ministers were to use it in any other sense. I accept that it could still be interpreted in this country as 1 million million and I shall ask my colleagues to ensure that, if they do use it, there should be no ambiguity as to its meaning." [5]
Musk, the richest man in the world, has poured more than $3 billion into the ever-expanding rocket-producing venture of SpaceX, perched in a river delta about 22 miles east of Brownsville.
Traditional American usage (which was also adapted from French usage but at a later date), Canadian, and modern British usage assign new names for each power of one thousand (the short scale). Thus, a billion is 1000 × 1000 2 = 10 9; a trillion is 1000 × 1000 3 = 10 12; and so forth.
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There is no estimation for the exact day or month the world's population surpassed the one and two billion marks. The days of three and four billion were not officially noted, but the International Database of the United States Census Bureau places them in July 1960 and April 1974 respectively. [citation needed]
However, there are different tiers of wealth among the top 1% of the world. For example, nearly 750 people on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list for 2022 have a net worth of $1.5 billion or ...