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World population to reach 10.3 billion peak in 2080s: UN report
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The global population is expected to grow by over two billion over the course of the next six decades, peaking at 10.3 billion in the 2080s, the U.N. reported Thursday.
According to the World Population Prospects 2024 report, the earlier-than-anticipated population peak is due to several factors, including lower fertility levels in some of the world’s largest countries, especially China, whose population is projected to drop dramatically from 1.4 billion in 2024 to 633 million in 2100.
Globally, women are having an average of one fewer child than they did in 1990, the report said, and in more than half of all countries and territories, the average number of live births per woman is below 2.1. That’s the level needed for a country’s population to maintain its size without migration.