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Based on this, the UN projected that the world population, 8 billion as of 2023, would peak around the year 2086 at about 10.4 billion, and then start a slow decline, assuming a continuing decrease in the global average fertility rate from 2.5 births per woman during the 2015–2020 period to 1.8 by the year 2100 (the medium-variant projection).
A recent UN report states that the “world’s population is expected to continue growing for another 50 or 60 years, reaching a peak of around 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s, up from 8.2 ...
The UN projects that Japan's population decline will accelerate to about −0.7% per year in the 2040–2045 time period. [20] This means that for Japan's GDP to grow during that period, per capita GDP growth must be greater than 0.7% per year.
A few years earlier he had warned, “The biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse. ...
According to a 2020 study published in Scientific Reports, if deforestation and resource consumption continue at current rates, they could culminate in a "catastrophic collapse in human population" and possibly "an irreversible collapse of our civilization" in the next 20 to 40 years. According to the most optimistic scenario provided by the ...
[3] [4] [5] Conversely, other researchers have found that national birth registries data from 2022 and 2023 that cover half the world's population indicate that the 2022 UN projections overestimated fertility rates by 10 to 20% and are already outdated, that the global fertility rate has possibly already fallen below the sub-replacement ...
Percentage of population ages 65 and over: 20.7%. Single-family average home value: $1,447,993. ... and using the most recent national average 30-year fixed mortgage rate, as sourced from the ...
The Indigenous population of the Americas in 1492 was not necessarily at a high point and may actually have already been in decline in some areas. Indigenous populations in most areas of the Americas reached a low point by the early 20th century. [20]