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Decline in innovation. A falling population also lowers the rate of innovation, since change tends to come from younger workers and entrepreneurs. [10] Strain on mental health. Population decline may harm a population's mental health (or morale) if it causes permanent recession and a concomitant decline in basic services and infrastructure. [12]
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).
The US population is projected to peak in 2080, then start declining, according to a new analysis by the US Census Bureau. Projections released Thursday predict the country’s population will ...
Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality. It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales, [ 3 ] and was founded by Max Roser , a social historian and ...
It is also a natural biological phenomenon: The world’s population has tripled in the last 70 years—and will settle into a new dynamic equilibrium as limitations are reached, with an expected ...
New data predicts population decline after 2080. The U.S. population is expected to stop growing by 2080 as deaths will begin to outpace birth rates and immigration, new data from the Census ...
The journal covers population studies, the relationships between population and economic, environmental, and social change, and related thinking on public policy. Content types are original research articles, commentaries, data and perspectives on statistics, archival documents on population issues, book reviews, and official documents from ...
The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 2.08 million, or 0.15%, to 1.409 billion in 2023. ... That was well above the population decline of 850,000 in ...