The United Nations says the world’s population is getting older and growing at a slower pace but is still expected to increase from the current 7.7 billion to 9.7 billion in 2050.
The U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ Population Division said in a report Monday that world population could reach a peak of nearly 11 billion around the end of the century.
The new projections indicate nine countries will be responsible for more than half the projected population growth between now and 2050. In descending order of the expected increase, they are: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the United States.
The report confirmed that the world’s population is growing older due to increasing life expectancy and falling fertility levels.
(AP)
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Good. Many countries are running into labor shortages. More workers, more consumers, more prosperity. But with an aging population and lower fertility levels, it won’t last. Eventually we’ll have a sever recession due to falling consumption and depopulation – such a recession can last centuries (one in Western Europe lstarted from the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west and lastged for at least 500, and arguably 1000 years).
I thought AOC said we’re doomed by 2031