The population total will grow to 11.2 billion worldwide by the end of the 21st century, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is predicting.
The current world population, at 7.3 billion, will increase to 9.7 billion by 2050 before rising to more than 11 billion five decades later, the department’s Population Division director, John R. Wilmoth, explained in a presentation Monday at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle.
Though population projections are by nature uncertain, the division can estimate with 95 percent confidence that the total will sit between 9.5 billion and 13.3 billion by …read more
Source: Newsweek
