The 8 countries driving world population growth from 8bn to 9.7bn - and China's not one of them

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Just eight of the world’s nations are expected to account for more than half of the world’s population increase in the year ahead, according to a UN report which states that the world’s population will pass eight billion on Tuesday.

The eight billion landmark has been surpassed little more than a decade after the global population reached seven billion in 2011, but growth is now at its slowest rate since 1950, according to World Population Prospects 2022.

The UN projects that the population will reach 8.5bn in 2030 and 9.7bn in 2050. It is expected to reach a peak of 10.4bn in the 2080s and it will remain around that mark until the end of millenium.

More than half of the projected increase up to 2050 will be accounted for by just eight countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania. Countries of sub-Saharan Africa are expected to contribute more than half of the increase anticipated through 2050, the UN states.

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[dpibel]

1. Wow! Steady population for 920 years.

"It is expected to reach a peak of 10.4bn in the 2080s and it will remain around that mark until the end of millenium."

(Just amusing myself with the world of journalism without copy editors.)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Global warming aside,

hardly anyone seems to think there's a negative impact of so many people.

[dpibel]

3. That's a pretty hefty aside

Other than the global warming, guys, we've pretty much got this nailed.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. I don't see how there can not be massive environmental degradation,

with huge numbers of species going extinct. Could be major effects on local climate, water, and ability of the land to support agriculture.

I don't see this ending well for the African continent.

[roamer65]

5. There will be a population crash.

War and climate change.

[Ron Green]

6. Human population reached a billion in about 1820. It took 300,000 years.

Since then, the fossil fuels, forests and fish that enabled the octupling of that number are pretty much done.

It’s time for a serious discussion about economic de-growth.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I'm hardly an expert, but it seems as if 1 billion people

is really the uppermost limit of what this planet can sustain. At some point, maybe sooner, maybe later, there will be a huge population crash. It would be better if it could be controlled, but given the current numbers of humans, it will be a crash, not a controlled diminishing of numbers.

I'm 74. I may or may not be around when that happens. I can only hope that when it does happen, people will be able to hang on to enough, enough of technology, enough of everything, to eventually recover, stabilize, and move on.

[jeffreyi]

7. We Win!

We have sucessfully subjugated (in many cases, better still, extincted) all other life forms, except noxious weeds, pernicious insects, invasives of all kinds, and so on. So proud.

[hunter]

8. If we don't fix this Mother Nature will, and it won't be pretty.

What seems to work best is the economic and political empowerment of women, easy availability of birth control, and realistic sex education.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. That sounds reasonable. Therefore, we must have more forced births. And orgies.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Exactly, humans don't seem hard wired to fix problems.

Just make them.