The world population is expected to reach 8 billion people by November 15 this year, according to an estimate by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs released Monday.
According to projection, India will overtake Chinabecoming the most populous country in the world as of 2023.
The United Nations commemorates World Population Day, which was proclaimed and adopted by the organization’s General Assembly on December 21, 1990.
Anticipating the birth of the person who will make the population reach 8,000 million on Earth, “is” a reminder of our responsibility to care for the planet and a time to reflect on how we have not yet fulfilled our commitments to each other, “he said. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement, without citing specific cases.
It is also “a time to celebrate our diversity, acknowledge our common humanity and marvel at advances in health, which have extended life expectancy and dramatically reduced maternal and infant mortality rates,” Guterres added.
According to the UN department responsible for such forecasts, the world’s population is growing at the slowest rate since 1950.
Even so, estimates indicate that the world population could reach 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050reaching approx. 10.4 billion people in the 2080s and then stay at that level until 2100.
Having seen a decline in birth rates in several so-called developed states, more than half of the expected increase in population in the coming decades should be concentrated in eight countries, according to the UN department, which identified the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt. , Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Tanzania.
Source: Observadora
