AS of 31 October 2025, the world’s total population has reached 8.18 billion. Along with this increase, many new questions and concerns have arisen for the people of the Earth. Will this rapidly growing world population truly make this planet a place worthy of being called the home of the “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”? Will humans be able to live a life that reflects this dig-nity?

Will these 8.18 billion people be able to live free from the fear of hunger or will many still consider scraps of bread and leftover bones from garbage bins as blessings to satisfy their hunger? Will the wealth of knowledge truly be accessible to all humankind or will it remain the privilege of the elite? If we observe the world from the perspective of developed and developing nations, the situa-tion seems even........

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