That's not what the current curve actually looks like though. The rate of increase is declining every year. There are a number of developed economies that alrea

That's not what the current curve actually looks like though. The rate of increase is declining every year. There are a number of developed economies that already have shrinking populations. There are a couple of different population projections out there and, of course, predictions about the future are hard. But all of them show a population peak around 2100 of maybe 10-12 billion people.