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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).
This Christian historian revised his prediction from the year 500 to 800. [21] 799–806 Gregory of Tours: This French bishop calculated the end would occur between 799 and 806. [22] 847 Thiota: This Christian declared in 847 that the world would end that year, though later confessed the prediction was fraudulent and was publicly flogged. [23 ...
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.
The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on Tuesday morning, putting it the closest the world has ever been to what scientists deem "global catastrophe."
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The historian and 51-year American University professor is the creator of a presidential election prediction system called "Keys to the White House," which uses 13 true-false criteria to forecast ...
Given the current trajectory of IBM's financials, a $1 trillion market cap over the next six years appears unlikely. Despite that modest prediction, IBM is back in action -- at least from a ...
In 2015, Stratfor published a decade forecast for 2015 to 2025, which revised the predictions on China and Russia made in the book. Rather than the Russian government completely collapsing, it envisioned that the Russian government would lose much of its power, and the country would gradually fragment into a series of semi-autonomous regions.