The world’s population will reach 8 billion people tomorrow, and next year India is expected to pass China as the most populous country, according to a comprehensive UN report published on the occasion of International Population Day | More according to the study: by 2030 the world’s population will reach 8.5. billion people, and population growth is growing at the slowest rate since 1950
Tomorrow (Tuesday) the world’s population will reach eight billion people, according to a UN study conducted on the occasion of International Population Day a few months ago. The study included the slowing of the death rate with other factors, and came to the conclusion that today, on November 15, the world’s population will reach eight A billion people. By 2030 the number will increase to 8.5 billion, and by the end of the century to 10.4 billion.
The population is growing at its slowest pace since 1950, falling below 1% in 2020, according to UN estimates. India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, with each having more than 1.4 billion inhabitants this year.
In 2021, the average fertility of the world’s population was 2.3 births per woman over a lifetime, after falling from about 5 births in 1950. Global fertility is expected to further decline to 2.1 births per woman by 2050.
“This is an opportunity to celebrate our diversity, recognize our shared humanity and marvel at the advances in health that have extended life expectancy and dramatically reduced maternal and child mortality rates,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres when the report was unveiled.
Other key findings in the report included that it took about 12 years for the population to grow from seven to eight billion, which is about the same time it took from six to seven billion. The next billion is expected to take about 14.5 years, until 2037. Ten countries contributed more than half of the population growth that led from the seventh to the eighth billion .India was by far the largest contributor, followed by China and Nigeria.Africa and Asia will drive population growth until reaching 9 billion in 2037.
Global life expectancy at birth reached 72.8 years in 2019, an improvement of almost nine years since 1990.