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Earth’s Population Should Peak Before the End of the Century
Newly released U.N. estimates project that the overall population will top out at around 10.29 billion people in 2084
By Danny Dougherty, WSJ
July 11, 2024 12:31 pm ET
The world’s population is growing more slowly and will peak at a lower level than previously projected, new estimates from the United Nations show.
The Earth will top out at around 10.29 billion people in 2084, before declining to 10.18 billion by 2100, the U.N. said in biennial population estimates released Thursday. That compares with the Earth’s population in July 2023 of 8.09 billion.
Across much of Europe—and in longtime population leader China—population levels have already peaked and are declining.
Notably, this population reversal means that India has now surpassed China as the world’s most populous country, with 1.44 billion people last year, compared with China’s 1.42 billion. India’s population won’t peak until 2061, the U.N. projects.
The U.S. population, estimated at 343.5 million in 2023, is expected to keep climbing through the end of the century, but at a slowing rate.
Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to have almost a third of the world’s population by the end of the century, driven as much by slowing population growth in other regions as accelerating African growth.
Amid those slowing growth rates, sub-Saharan Africa is expected to make up a larger slice of the world population, climbing to just under a third by 2100. This reflects not just growth in Africa, but also declining Asian populations and flattening population growth in the Americas.
In an increasing number of countries, the fertility rate—the number of babies a woman is expected to bear over her lifetime—has fallen below 2.1. In advanced countries, that is the replacement rate—the level generally held to be needed to keep a flat population before accounting for immigration. The replacement rate in poorer countries is thought to be higher. Indeed, the world’s fertility rate, at 2.25 last year, is thought by some demographers to be a milestone—the first time the entire world is now at replacement fertility.
Despite the decline in fertility, population continues to grow because of the growth in the number of women of childbearing age, itself a reflection of higher birthrates in past decades. However, that number is expected to plateau toward the end of the century.
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