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The UN's 2024 report projects world population to be 8.1 billion in 2024, about 9.6 billion in 2050, and about 10.2 billion in 2100. The following table shows the largest 15 countries by population as of 2024, 2050 and 2100 to show how the rankings will change between now and the end of this century. [39]
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
On this timescale, any discrete body of matter "behaves like a liquid" and becomes a smooth sphere due to diffusion and gravity. [142] 1.16×10 67 (11.6 unvigintillion) The estimated time until a black hole of 1 solar mass today, decays by Hawking radiation. [145] 1.54×10 91 –1.41×10 92 (15.4–141 novemvigintillion)
Now, if we speed through 3.5 million years of history and look at technological advances that were civilization changers, we start with the very first: stone tools.
In the mid-21st century, around the year 2050, a Third World War will take place, between the United States, the "Polish Bloc", the UK, India, and China on one side, and Turkey and Japan on the other, with Germany and France entering the war in its late stages on the side of Turkey and Japan. According to Friedman, "I can’t possibly know the ...
A 2019 Pew Research Center survey found that 46% of Americans believe that the middle class will decrease by 2050, while 28% say it will grow larger and about the same percentage (26%) say it will ...
A look at 2024 and 2025. Market activity will vary across the US Nationally, many economists call for home prices to rise between 2% and 4% next year, around historical averages.
The biological and geological future of Earth can be extrapolated based on the estimated effects of several long-term influences. These include the chemistry at Earth's surface, the cooling rate of the planet's interior, gravitational interactions with other objects in the Solar System, and a steady increase in the Sun's luminosity.