Peak population growth rate was 50 years ago. -> https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth What we

Peak population growth rate was 50 years ago. -> https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth What we are currently seeing in absolute numbers is a huge number of people with a lower growth rate out-reproducing a lower number with a higher growth rate in the past. Education, available contraceptives, low child mortality (yes, low mortality as that makes having children less of a gamble and therefore you can get away with having fewer) automatically lead to lower fertility rates.