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The world is following suit, and quite rapidly at that: China, Korea, virtually all of Europe, the US (excluding immigration), etc. Even parts of southern Indi
by rippercushions 3y ago
The world is following suit, and quite rapidly at that: China, Korea, virtually all of Europe, the US (excluding immigration), etc. Even parts of southern India are now below replacement level.
- modo_mario 3y agoThe world population is still going up steadily and will continue to do so for a good while led by Africa no? I think Africa's population growth is predicted to plateau around 2100
- rippercushions 3y agoYup, it's by no means equally distributed, but fertility is dropping fast in Africa too.
- jemmyw 3y agoI think it'll plateau well before that though because they'll see so much pressure on food and water resources. Africa doesn't feed itself now and if the rest of the world needs to direct more food production locally due to lower yield caused by climate change then Africa is positioned to suffer the most.
- qwytw 3y agoBut yields continue increasing at a relatively fast pace overal?
- ido 3y agoIt's projected to peak at a bit over 10B before the end of the century and then steadily decline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth#/media/File:World_Population_Prospects.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... (see solid red median line).