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As of 2022, Chinese state media reported the country's total fertility rate to be 1.09. [6] China was the world's most populous country from at least 1950 [7] until being surpassed by India in 2023. [8] [9] By one estimate, in 2024 China's population stood at about 1.408 billion, down from the 1.412 billion recorded in the 2020 census. [10]
The UN Population Division report of 2022 projects world population to continue growing after 2050, although at a steadily decreasing rate, to peak at 10.4 billion in 2086, and then to start a slow decline to about 10.3 billion in 2100 with a growth rate at that time of -0.1%.
The population growth rate estimates (according to the United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020 [6] The 20 countries in the world in which the population has declined between 2010 and 2015
The CIA World Factbook gives the world annual birthrate, mortality rate, and growth rate as 1.86%, 0.78%, and 1.08% respectively. [29] The last 100 years have seen a massive fourfold increase in the population, due to medical advances , lower mortality rates, and an increase in agricultural productivity made possible by the Green Revolution .
HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a record low birth rate and a wave of COVID-19 deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a downturn that ...
This is a list of population milestones by country (and year first reached). Only existing countries are included, not former countries. Only existing countries are included, not former countries. 20 million milestone
Falling birth rates have put major global economies on the path toward "population collapse," according to a report from McKinsey Global Institute. By 2100, some counties could see their ...
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