Whats the current population of the world?

The answer is: 7.6 billion people.

World population refers to the total number of humans currently alive. As of May 2018, it is estimated that 7.6 billion people populate our planet. It should be noted that, ever since the middle ages, during the Black Death episode which considerably decimated the population of the world, the number of humans alive has steadily experienced positive growth, especially in the last 200 years, which has seen an increase of 6 billion people in the world´s population.  

Read the excerpt below (from Wikipedia's entry on the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo) with accuracy and fluency. Discuss
any unfamiliar words from the passage and what strategies you used to understand them.
In the course of their struggle, some of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo began to see themselves as inheritors of their
children's dreams and responsible for carrying forward their children's work, even to the adopting the radical agenda
embraced by some of their disappeared sons and daughters. As a result, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association
faction led by Hebe de Bonafini takes a more political approach. This group does not doubt the fact that their children
disappeared, and they are aware that the majority of them faced torture and most of them were ultimately murdered.
Nevertheless, they are refusing any help offered by the government as compensation for their children's absence. Many
still maintain that they will not recognize the deaths until the government admits its fault and its connection to the dirty war
and its systematically forced disappearances.