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