{"id":211215,"date":"2025-04-12T02:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-warn-there-could-be-over-1000000000-people-living-on-the-planet-and-no-one-knows-about-them"},"modified":"2025-04-12T02:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T07:10:40","slug":"scientists-warn-there-could-be-over-1000000000-people-living-on-the-planet-and-no-one-knows-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-warn-there-could-be-over-1000000000-people-living-on-the-planet-and-no-one-knows-about-them","title":{"rendered":"Scientists warn there could be over 1,000,000,000 people living on the planet and no one knows about them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-warn-there-could-be-over-1000000000-people-living-on-the-planet-and-no-one-knows-about-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study, as reported by the <a class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/population-earth-world-billions-un-estimate-b2721808.html\">Independent<\/a>, outlines that rural areas can often provide roadblocks for researchers:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunities in remote locations or impacted by conflict and violence are difficult to access, and census enumerators often face language barriers and resistance to participation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study, as reported by the Independent, outlines that rural areas can often provide roadblocks for researchers: \u201cCommunities in remote locations or impacted by conflict and violence are difficult to access, and census enumerators often face language barriers and resistance to participation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}