Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion
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A new projection of the population growth rate highlights that the world’s population could peak at 8.5 billion people by 2050, and decline to 7 billion in 2100
While significantly lower than several prominent population estimates, including those of the United Nations, researchers from the Earth4All initiative for the Global Challenges Foundation used a new system dynamics model to understand the population growth rate.
Exploring two scenarios this century, researchers entail that investment...
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