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It doesn't look like world population growth is slowing at all: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?end=2020&start=1960&view=chart https://data.wor
by wefarrell 5y ago
It doesn't look like world population growth is slowing at all:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?end=2020&start=1960&view=chart https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?end=2020&st...
What reason do you have to believe that the population will top off at 10 billion?
- Retric 5y agoThat’s a legacy of increasing life expectancy not increasing number of births. ~139 Million people where born in 1988 and ~140 Million people where born in 2020. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/births-and-deaths-projected-to-2100?country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/births-and-deaths-project... ~140 Million * global life expectancy of 72.6 years is ~10 Billion people.
- wefarrell 5y agoMore of those births are making past infancy: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN?end=2019&start=1960 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN?end=2019...
- Retric 5y agoSure, and more people are living to 40 etc. But without more births population is simply a question of (average life expectancy) * (birth rate).