Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year

MikeChino writes "The UN Population Division just announced that the world's human population will hit 7 billion by Halloween 2011. The increase of one billion people in the past 12 years is worrying, especially since the global population only reached one billion total in the early 19th century. In the next 20 years, our population growth is predicted to rise to 8 billion people as our demand for food increases by 50 percent, water by 30 percent and energy by 50 percent." Not everyone finds it to be worrying per se.

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Population decline

[Compaqt]

Given decreases in TFR, it's possible the world will experience a population decline this century.

The total fertility rate is below replacement level for many countries of the world. The main exception is sub-Saharan Africa.

Most of the Anglo- and Eurosphere is in decline. The US is in decline natively, and only growing due to immigration.