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Of the additional 1.9 billion people projected between 2020 and 2050, 1.2 billion will be added in Africa, 0.7 billion in Asia and zero in the rest of the world. Africa's share of global population is projected to grow from 17% in 2020 to 25% in 2050 and 38% by 2100, while the share of Asia will fall from 60% in 2020 to 55% in 2050 and 45% in 2100.
According to the UN, the global population reached eight billion in November 2022, [64] but because the growth rate is slowing, it will take another 15 years to reach around 9 billion by 2037 and 20 years to reach 10 billion by 2057. [65] Alternative scenarios for 2050 range from a low of 7.4 billion to a high of more than 10.6 billion. [66]
The Day of Five Billion, 11 July 1987, was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which the world population reached five billion. Matej Gašpar from Zagreb , Croatia (then SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person alive on Earth .
The world’s population has grown dramatically in the last 75 years, from an estimated 2.6 billion in 1950 to 8 billion in November 2022. Since then, it has increased by roughly 2.5% to 8.2 billion.
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.
The population of 1.4 billion people — still more than 10 times that of Japan — is projected to fall to 1.3 billion by 2050. The Pope is urging Italians to have more children
He understands the task at hand for the food industry is to feed some 10 billion people by 2050—not only growing it but getting it to people.
The latest projections by the United Nations suggest that the global population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 billion in 2100. [ 29 ] More than half of the projected increase in global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo , Egypt , Ethiopia ...