By 2100 the World's Population Could Be 11 Billion

[geeteam]

It's difficult to forecast how the world's population will change in the next hundred years or so. Some researchers think it could decline, and others say there's nowhere to go but up. A new study published today in Science sides with the latter camp, forecasting that by 2100 the human population will have increased to between 9.6 and 12.3 billion.

The research, which was led by the United Nations and University of Washington, comes to similar conclusions as a 2013 report by the group. Both this new study and the one from 2013 used advanced statistical modeling on life expectancy and fertility data to narrow the U.N.'s previous range of estimates for the population in 2100. The U.N. prediction was formerly 7 billion to about 17 billion—a range that's too large to really be helpful. But the 2013 study brought the forecast to between 9 billion and 13 billion. Today's findings narrow the range further to a spread of 2.7 billion.

Most of the growth is forecast to be in Africa, where the current population of 1 billion is predicted to grow to 4 billion by 2100. The study cites large family size and lack of access to birth control as factors that may contribute to the sharp rise. But it also notes that family planning initiatives and better access to contraception could reduce the increases the researchers are predicting both in Africa and worldwide.

The study also openly disputes a common belief that the world population will plateau around 9 billion by 2050. The researchers wrote, "Analysis of these data reveals that, contrary to previous literature, world population is unlikely to stop growing this century."

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[CODYQX4]

Way too many people, way too few stuff, means shit is going to collapse WAY before then.

[locoJoe]

I would like to see the equation for such a prediction! I am curious did they factor in the W (war) variable? What about the D (disease) variable? What about the ICAWTDTE (Im Crazy And Want To Destroy The Earth) variable?

[oliverjia]

Nature has its way to achieve balance. No worries folks.

[CODYQX4]

Nature has its way to achieve balance. No worries folks.

Yeah, but you really don't want to be around to see just how nature does it firsthand, because it sure isn't going to be pretty.

If the population doubles from today at the end of the century, without new tech bordering on sci-fi magic, most people will be starving and disease ridden.

[OrioNeXus]

we will extinct soon -_-