The exhibition "6 billion Human Beings" was first presented in Paris, in 1988, at the National Museum  of Natural History – Museum of Man (Musée de l'Homme, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle) by the Laboratory of biologic Anthropology (Conception: Gilles Pison, in collaboration with Ninian Hubert van Blyenburgh / Graphic design: Thérèse Troϊka / Art director: Pierre Schall). The population data come in most from the United Nations (World Population Prospects). The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of: the following organizations: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Information Center for the problems of population, Ministry of Education, National Institute for Medical Research (INSE), Association of Friends of the Museum of Man, National Center for Scientific Research, Ipsen Foundation, Gamma and Explorer Agencies.

The exhibition curated by the Laboratory of Demographic and Social Analyses (LDSA) is a is a short version of the complete exhibition and consists of a) 25 plasticized color large format posters (70 x100 cm) in French and the equivalent in Greek (in smaller format 50 x70 cm) and b) audiovisual material of 35’ duration (in French as well as dubbed in Greek).

In the 25 posters is presented the evolution of the global population, its geographical distribution, urbanization, the population structures with emphasis on aging, the evolution of basic demographic components (fertility, mortality, migration), existing demographic disparities and the major contemporary demographic problems of our planet.

The audiovisual material (video) which accompanies this exhibition presents the demographic transition that constituted a general analytical tool for the description of transformations of demographic behaviors in 19^th century Western Europe and subsequently in the whole planet. The model of demographic transition describes in general terms the gradual passage, in most countries in the world during the last two hundred years, from very high to very low levels of fertility and mortality, while attempting to interpret the aforesaid changes. This video was dubbed at the Laboratory of Demographic and Social Analyses (LDSA) of the University of Thessaly and was processed at the Lab of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Documentation (LECAD)

This exhibition (as well the accompanying audio-visual material) was granted to the Laboratory of Demographic and Social Analyses (LDSA) of the University of Thessaly by the Department of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation of the Embassy of France in Greece. It was translated by prof. Byron Kotzamanis in collaboration with Mrs D. Petrou.

It is available for educational use by LDSA both in digital (PDF) and in printed form.

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