Posted on 07/13/2022 10:09:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
By Nov. 15, the world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion, and by 2023, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country, according to a new report from the United Nations.
The international agency listed these projections among several key highlights in its annual World Population Prospect report, released to mark World Population Day Monday.
“This year’s World Population Day falls during a milestone year, when we anticipate the birth of the Earth’s eight billionth inhabitant,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, reacting to the report’s findings.
“This is an occasion to celebrate our diversity, recognize our common humanity, and marvel at advancements in health that have extended lifespans and dramatically reduced maternal and child mortality rates,” he said. “At the same time, it is a reminder of our shared responsibility to care for our planet and a moment to reflect on where we still fall short of our commitments to one another."
After reaching the 8 billion mark in November, experts note in the report that the world’s population will increase by another half a billion by 2030. By 2050, the global population is expected to hit 9.7 billion and 10.4 billion by 2100.
This growth, however, will not be evenly distributed.
More than half of the 2.4 billion increase in the global population expected over the next 28 years will be concentrated in just eight countries: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania.
“Disparate growth rates among the world’s largest countries will re-order their ranking by size. India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country during 2023. Countries of sub-Saharan Africa are expected to continue growing through 2100 and to contribute more than half of the global population increase anticipated through 2050,” the report explained.
Population growth in Australia and New Zealand, Northern Africa and Western Asia and Oceania is expected to be slower through the end of this century, but will be positive, the report said.
Experts further project that populations of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, Central and Southern Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Northern America are projected to reach their peak population and begin to decline before 2100.
Declining levels of mortality have resulted in an increased level of life expectancy at birth, which reached 72.8 years in 2019. Women have a longer life expectancy than men.
“Life expectancy at birth for women exceeded that for men by 5.4 years globally, with female and male life expectancies standing at 73.8 and 68.4, respectively. A female survival advantage is observed in all regions and countries, ranging from 7 years in Latin America and the Caribbean to 2.9 years in Australia and New Zealand,” the report said.
Despite the population growth, the global fertility rate has fallen from five births per woman in 1950 to 2.3 births per woman in 2021. This fertility rate is expected to drop even further to 2.1 births per woman by 2050.
The report explained that in 2020, the world’s population growth rate fell under 1% per year for the first time since 1950. Some two-thirds of the global population is now reportedly living in a country where lifetime fertility is below the 2.1 births per woman required to sustain populations with low mortality over the long run.
The share of the global population aged 65 years or above is also projected to rise from 10% in 2022 to 16% in 2050.
“By 2050, the number of persons aged 65 years or over worldwide is projected to be more than twice the number of children under age 5,” the report said, “and about the same as the number of children under age 12.”
“Women have a longer life expectancy than men”
You know why men die before their wives don’t you?
Because they want to!
China’s marriages and births have dropped by approximately 50% in the 3 years of covid and CCP covid lock-downs. I’m not a demographer, but I don’t think that is even normal during wartime.
If the CCP seriously pursues the stated goal of “covid zero” for the next 5 years, China’s population will drop off a cliff. They will have an entire missing generation.
No wonder they blew up the Georgia Guidestones.
Don’t worry, the covid vaccines purpose was to eliminate fertility in children because turning them gay and trans wasn‘t working fast enough
Are free rubbers and abortions available?
Throw China and India into the ocean..... there ya go!! .../sarc
This must be why I`m receiving so many fake Geek Squad and Norton emails.
There is more than enough room for 8 billion people on Earth. They can all fit in a small region of any state with room to spare. The problem is all the crap they create daily. Lots of aholes exist. That’s what makes life unbearable for many of us.
Now if those peaceful Indians would invade China and kill half the population, the world would be a better place
Hey! COVID is an existential crisis!
Hey! We have too many people!
Hey! We need you fools to live in fear!
It's too late for the Baby Boomers to change it. They had their 1.7 kids (replacement rate needed to be 2.1) and so the next generation will be much smaller and not in the best position to support them in retirement.
That said, the United States is actually in the best position of first world countries demographically speaking. Countries like Japan and England have even lower birth rates.
But that said, whites will eventually become a minority in the United States. As soon as 2045 which is just around the corner. They just aren't having enough children.
You are really advocating for the killing of 2 billion people?
Read the comment I was responding to, genius. Perhaps English is not your mother tongue.
Aren’t you the snarky one, genius
Yes most nations are in a population decline outside of immigration. Even India is falling in its number of births. I know it might be too soon, but a readjustment to a falling population will be neccessary.
I don't care about any need to readjust the population downward. My gripe is that they overpopulate aholes elsewhere, and then expect us to take them in. We need stronger borders (and better "leaders").
What happens next I have no idea. The culture of self-extermination - as I refer to the developed world - has no cure that's been found short of societal collapse on the scale of the Dark Ages. Or maybe a widespread religious revival, but that will be fought tooth and nail (and much more) by the elites.
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