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At this point it is useful to reiterate that global population growth right now is no longer exponential. Not even linear. It is sublinear, and the population e

• ourworldindata 8y ago
  Yes, that is right the population growth rate started declining more than half a century ago. In 1962 the growth rate peaked at 2.2% and has halved since then: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#the-global-population-growth-rate-peaked-long-ago https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#the-globa... The projections from different research teams differ in when they expect the population population to peak. IIASA suggests what you say, the UN expects it later. I looked at the different projections (and what is behind the differences) here https://ourworldindata.org/peak-child https://ourworldindata.org/peak-child