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Latvia is one of the most depopulating countries in the world, losing about 20,000 people every year. Between 1990 and 2024, Latvia's population decreased by 780,000 people, from 2.66 million to 1.88 million, or 30%, and continues to decline. Over the next thirty years Latvia will lose another 23.5% as a result of continued depopulation. [57]
Population decline, also known as depopulation, is a reduction in a human population size. ... As of 1 May 2024, Latvia had a total population of 1,862,700.
The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions from various sources for various time periods. The right-most column shows a projection for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant.
China's population is projected to crash 55% by the turn of the next century. Italy's will sink 41%, and Brazil's will drop 23%. Top economies face ‘population collapse’ as fertility rates ...
The World Population Prospects 2024 report from the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs predicts global population growth from 8.2 billion this year to approximately 10.3 billion in ...
Latvia closed 131 schools between 2006 and 2010, which is a 12.9% decline, and in the same period enrolment in educational institutions has fallen by over 54,000 people, a 10.3% decline. [ 237 ] Latvian policy in science and technology has set out the long-term goal of transitioning from labor-consuming economy to knowledge-based economy. [ 238 ]
The global decline in population should not be feared but embraced as an opportunity to rethink and reshape our economic models for greater equity and resilience. We have scant choice otherwise.
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).