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World population likely to peak sooner and lower than expected

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Silhouettes of people in front of a globe model of Earth – artist Luke Jerram's Floating Earth.
Mon 27 Mar 2023 06.00 BST
 
THE GUARDIAN
 

The long-feared “population bomb” may not go off, according to the authors of a new report that estimates that human numbers will peak lower and sooner than previously forecast.

The study, commissioned by the Club of Rome, projects that on current trends the world population will reach a high of 8.8 billion before the middle of the century, then decline rapidly. The peak could come earlier still if governments take progressive steps to raise average incomes and education levels.

The new forecasts are good news for the global environment. Once the demographic bulge is overcome, pressure on nature and the climate should start to ease, along with associated social and political tensions.

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