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  2. Human population projections - Wikipedia

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    Based on this, the UN projected that the world population, 8 billion as of 2023, would peak around the year 2086 at about 10.4 billion, and then start a slow decline, assuming a continuing decrease in the global average fertility rate from 2.5 births per woman during the 2015–2020 period to 1.8 by the year 2100 (the medium-variant projection).

  3. List of countries by past and projected future population

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    The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.

  4. Fertility is falling and populations are tapering, U.N ... - AOL

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    India’s population is also expected to keep increasing through midcentury, according to the report. ... That’s up from a pandemic low of 70.9 in 2021 and higher than the pre-pandemic 72.4 five ...

  5. Human overpopulation - Wikipedia

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    Annual world population growth peaked at 2.1% in 1968 and has since dropped to 1.1%. [1] According to the most recent United Nations' projections, the global human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and would peak at around 10.4 billion people in the 2080s, before decreasing, noting that fertility rates are falling worldwide.

  6. World population milestones - Wikipedia

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    The Day of Five Billion, 11 July 1987, was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which the world population reached five billion. Matej Gašpar from Zagreb , Croatia (then SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person alive on Earth .

  7. Population growth - Wikipedia

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    The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 8.2 billion in 2025. [3] Actual global human population growth amounts to around 70 million annually, or 0.85% per year. As of 2024, The United Nations projects that global population will peak in the mid-2080s at around 10.3 billion. The UN's estimates have decreased strongly in recent ...

  8. Global life expectancy to increase by nearly five years by ...

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    According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, countries where life expectancy is currently lower are expected to see the largest increase.

  9. List of countries by population growth rate - Wikipedia

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    The number shown is the average annual growth rate for the period. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship—except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of the country of origin ...