The UN fresh report reports that next year China will give in the status of the most populated country in the world of India. Both countries will overcome the bar of 1.4 billion people this year.
It is clear that all these figures are evaluative, and according to these estimates by November of this year, the total population of the planet will be eight billion people, 8.5 billion next, but the gained pace will not be preserved, and by 2100 on Earth will live According to scientists, 10.4 billion people. Of course, if nothing happens out of the ordinary.
The growth rate of the population, which has been scared for a long time, is actually noticeably falling, and is now at a historically minimum level: on average, the birth rate is 2.3 children per woman throughout her life. In 1950, an average of five children per woman was on average. In 2050, the birth rate is expected to drop to 2.1 children.
The report indicates that due to Covid, the average life expectancy has decreased. In 2019, it was 72.8 years, and now – 71 years. According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic claimed the lives of almost 15 million people.
It is interesting that, according to the forecasts of UN experts, the main contribution to the growth of the population on the planet will make eight countries in the next thirty years: half of the new residents of the Earth will be born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Philippines and Tanzania . At the same time, in more than sixty countries, the population will decrease. From which the problem of overpopulated and not enough developed Africa with inevitably arises from which something will need to be done in the second half of the current century.