A World With 11 Billion People? New Population Projections Shatter Earlier Estimates -- National Geographic
Dueling projections of population growth present different visions of the world's future.
Warning: The 21st century may get a lot more crowded than previously thought.
In a paper published Thursday in Science, demographers from several universities and the United Nations Population Division conclude that instead of leveling off in the second half of the 21st century, as the UN predicted less than a decade ago, the world's population will continue to grow beyond 2100. (Read "Population Seven Billion" in National Geographic magazine.)
And for the first time, through the use of a "probabilistic" statistical method, the Science paper establishes a range of uncertainty around its central estimate-9.6 billion Earthlings in 2050, 10.9 billion by 2100. There's an 80 percent chance, the authors conclude, that the actual number of people in 2100 will be somewhere between 9.6 and 12.3 billion.
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More News On New Population Projections That Are Estimating A World With 11 Billion People
World population to keep growing this century, hit 11 billion by 2100 -- University of Washington
Global Population Predicted to Reach Nearly 11 Billion by 2100 -- VOA
World Should Prepare for 11 BIllion or More People -- Scientific American
Earth has an 80% chance of hitting 11 billion people by 2100 -- Geek
Global population may reach 11 billion by 2100 -- RT
New forecast: The Earth could have 11 billion people by 2100 -- VOX
11 billion people by 2100? Solving the world’s problems just got a lot harder than we thought -- Salon
My Comment: We have seen what 7 billion people can do today .... 11 billion .... that world is certainly going to be different than the one that we live in today. The complete study is here.
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