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Dear MEL Topic Readers,
India to overtake China as the world’s most populous country: UN
The world’s population was about 2.5 billion in 1950, six billion in 2000, seven billion in 2012, and 7.7 billion this year. So, there are over three times as many people now as were shortly after WWII on the planet. That is quite a leap in a very short period of time in Homo Sapience’s seventy-some millennium history. And the increase has been accelerated especially for the last two decades, which have added nearly two billion people. The world is surely getting more crowded especially in Asia and Africa.
And for the next three decades, the world is predicted to add two more billion people. The growth rate declines as over 50 countries are expected to lose their populations more than one percent mainly due to low fertility rate. China alone is going to lose 300 million people by 2050 due to the decreasing fertility rate that is caused by urbanization, later marriage, and rising living, especially education costs.
The growth is expected to come from other part of Asia, but not from eastern countries like Japan or Korea but from South and Southeast Asia like India, Pakistan, and Indonesia and also from Africa. For example, Nigeria, whose present-day population is about two hundred million, is expected to add more than half a billion people just in the next three decades.
Will the world have enough food and fresh water, not sea water, to feed this rapid population growth? Also, will the environment allow humans and other species to survive?
Enjoy reading and think how far 2050 is from now, not only for us but also for our children.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/19/health/india-china-world-population-intl-hnk/index.html
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