Scroll down that page a bit and you’ll find the “Rate of Growth” chart where you can see a clear decline in birth rate increase globally since the 1960s and it’ll only be another decade or so with current trends before we are in genuine negative population growth. And that’s also assuming there are no more pandemics and/or global scale ecologocial catastrophes likely to happen in that time (there almost certainly will be).
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chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The population isn’t declining, though. See for yourself: www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Denjin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Eq0@literature.cafe 3 weeks ago
That’s not what the given website says. The given source predicts a continuous growth until at least 2100, while the growth rate slowly grinds to a halt but doesn’t go negative. Obviously this is only one possible forecast, others give different outcomes
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think it’s because we are living longer and the effects of lower birthrate will be shown later
inconel@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The slowing down of population growth is real though. Trend of fewer children is across the board not just developed countries. Current trajectory estimates population to peak out in 2050-2080 and then decline, for some in their youth in next 30 or 50 years may not be that too far to completely dismiss.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Depending on how climate change goes, population might decline by many billions. Hopefully I’ll be dead by then.