World Population Set to Peak This Century in New UN Forecasts
- Estimated population in 2100 declined by 6% from a decade ago
- China, Germany, Japan and Russia already passed peak people
Growth in some of the world’s most populous nations like India, Indonesia and Nigeria will help boost the world total by 2.1 billion over the next six decades, the UN forecasts.
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One in four of the world’s nations has already passed peak population, as declining birth rates contribute to slower growth, according to new United Nations estimates.
The global population will likely peak at 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s, the UN Population Division said in a report out Thursday. A decade ago, the agency only saw a 30% chance that population growth would end this century, but that’s now risen to 80%.