UN: World population will reach 9.8 billion by 2050

The world's population of 7.6 billion will balloon to 9.8 billion by 2050 and India will overtake China as the most populous country in just seven years, a United Nations report has said.


The report, released by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs on Wednesday, forecasts that from now to 2050, half of the world's population growth will be concentrated in just nine countries: India, Nigeria, Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the US, Uganda and Indonesia.

Those nations are listed in the order of their "expected contribution to total growth".

At that rate, the world's population will reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, the report titled The World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision said.

By 2050, Nigeria will overtake the US to become the third most populous country...
 [aljazeera.com]
22/6/17
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