Summary: Survey Predicts Population of 9 Billion

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-na/2004/nov/05/110507864.html

SURVEY SAYS: A new U.N. report says the world's population will have stabilized at about 9 billion people in 2030. The average woman will give birth to two children.

PEOPLE EVERYWHERE: The global population will grow by 57 million every year until 2050, to 8.9 billion people.

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That means the world's population will grow by 47 percent to 8.9 billion by 2050, with the biggest spike in African nations. By 2300, a quarter of the world's population will be African, the report projects.

Among the report's other projections is that the average life expectancy will rise to about 95 years in 2300. In Japan, where even today people tend to live the longest, life expectancy will be 106. India will surpass China as the world's most populous nation, but China and the United States will be two and three.

The median age will rise from 26 years to 50 years.

While the population of young people will generally stabilize, the world will see more people over 80. That means world population will grow slightly over time because life expectancy will always rise, though by smaller and smaller margins.

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[el_gato]

1. a rather sanguine view if you ask me

[kcwayne]

2. The study does not account for the upcoming Bush Crusade

The true number will be 8 billion, once Bush and his moral values party murders 1 billion Muslims.

[jpak]

3. It probably doesn't account for widespread oil and gas depletion

by the mid-century either.

We'll be fighting over every last dribble of hydrocarbon by 2050...

[NNadir]

4. I don't believe it for a minute. They way things are going, some real

tragedy will befall this planet and the already stretched carrying capacity will collapse long before this number is reached.