Wednesday, May 4, 2011

10.1 Billion People By The End Of The Century

U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century’s End -- New York Times

The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday.

Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in this century, rising from today’s one billion to 3.6 billion, the report said — a sobering forecast for a continent already struggling to provide food and water for its people.

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My Comment: By looking at the above graph, it is easy to see where most of the world's future wars and conflicts will come from .... Asia, Middle East, and Africa. The reason why .... that is where the people are.

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