Updated: 10:41 AM EST
World Population to Exceed 9 Billion in 2050, U.N. Says
Growth Concentrated in Developing Countries
By EDITH M. LEDERER, AP
UNITED NATIONS (Feb. 25) - The world's population will increase by 40
percent to 9.1 billion in 2050, but virtually all the growth will be
in the developing world, especially in the 50 poorest countries, the
U.N. Population Division said.
In a report Thursday, the division said the population in less
developed countries is expected to swell from 5.3 billion today to 7.8
billion in 2050. By contrast, the population of richer developed
countries will remain mostly unchanged, at 1.2 billion.
"It is going to be a strain on the world," said Hania Zlotnik, the
division's new director. She said the expected growth will be
concentrated in countries that already struggle to provide adequate
shelter, health care and education.
The report reconfirmed many trends, including an increasingly aging
population in developed countries. But it said immigration would
prevent the overall population in richer countries from declining.
By the Numbers
2.5 billion
Projected population growth in world's poorest nations from 2005 to
2050
9.1 billion
Projected world population in 2050
394 million
Projected U.S. population in 2050
298 million
U.S. population in 2005
43 years
Projected life expectancy in southern Africa in the next 10 years, due
to AIDS
Source: AP
The United States is projected to be the major net recipient of
international migrants, 1.1 million annually, with its population
increasing from 298 million in 2005 to 394 million in 2050, the report
said.
Between 2005 and 2050, population growth in eight countries - India,
Pakistan, Nigeria, Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda, the United States,
Ethiopia and China - is likely to make up half the world's increase,
the report said.
Median fertility is expected to decline from 2.6 children per woman
today to slightly over 2 children per woman in 2050.
Zlotnik said India's population will surpass China's in the coming
decades because its fertility, currently at 3 children per woman, is
higher than China's, estimated at 1.7 children per woman.
In 2000-2005, fertility levels remained above 5 children per woman in
35 of the 148 developing countries, including 30 of the poorest
nations. The pace of decline in several countries in sub-Saharan
Africa and south Asia was slower than anticipated.
In southern Africa, the region with the highest AIDS prevalence, life
expectancy has fallen from 62 years in 1995 to 48 years in 2000-2005,
and is projected to decrease further to 43 years over the next decade
before a slow recovery starts, it said.
Thoraya Obaid, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund, said
the new projections should spur more action to stop the spread of
HIV/AIDS and help couples freely determine the size of their families.
"We must take more urgent action to promote access to reproductive
health, including family planning, and fight HIV/AIDS to save millions
of lives from AIDS and maternal death, as well as to reduce poverty in
developing countries," she said in a statement.
In 2002 the Population Division had estimated global population in
2050 of 8.9 billion.
02/25/05 02:08 EST
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27 Feb 2005 01:42:29 AM |
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wrote:
Updated: 10:41 AM EST
World Population to Exceed 9 Billion in 2050, U.N. Says
Growth Concentrated in Developing Countries
By EDITH M. LEDERER, AP
UNITED NATIONS (Feb. 25) - The world's population will increase by 40
percent to 9.1 billion in 2050, but virtually all the growth will be
in the developing world, especially in the 50 poorest countries, the
U.N. Population Division said.
In 2050? I expect the planets population will rise to about 2.5 billion
people around then.
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25 Feb 2005 02:33:31 PM |
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They are simply full of *****.
The world and our kind will
be destroyed long before
2050.
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26 Feb 2005 10:21:33 PM |
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