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But the chart is forecasting 11+ billion!

• Gwypaas 7y ago
  Because the shape of the population pyramid is changing. From a wider base when the fertility used to be high to about everyone surviving to their 80s. It's this momentum that will keep the total population increasing a couple of decades. Read Factfulness by Hans Roslin if you want to learn more about this phenomenon and similar questions about poverty in the world.