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The World's Population Is Projected To Peak At 10.3 Billion In the 2080s
Monday July 15, 2024. 12:53 AM , from Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: According to a new report from the United Nations, the world population is expected to grow to an estimated peak of 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s, an increase over the current global population of 8.2 billion people.
The estimated world population at the end of the century (2100) is now expected to be 6% less than estimates from a decade ago. However, calculating the number of future people is not a perfect science, with 'many sources of uncertainty in estimating the global population,' according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It estimated the world reached 8 billion people last September, while the U.N. timed the milestone nearly one year earlier. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://slashdot.org/story/24/07/14/2227218/the-worlds-population-is-projected-to-peak-at-103-billio...
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