A bi-annual
report by the French Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) predicted that
there would 10 to 11 billion people on the planet by the end of the century.
The projections
ran parallel to forecasts by the United Nations the World Bank and other prominent
national institutes.
Earlier this
year in June a UN Study said that the global population will increase to 9.6
billion in 2050 and the number of people aged 60 and above would catapult from
841 million now to two billion in 250 and nearly three billion in 2100.
Nonetheless,
Ined said that Africa would be home to a quarter of the world’s population in
2050 with 2.5 billion people, more than double the current level of 1.1
billion.
Gilles Pison,
the author of the report, said that the prevailing fertility rate in Africa was
around 4.8 children per woman for higher than the global average of 2.5.
In addition the
Americans will breach the one billion mark in 2050 with 1.2 billion inhabitants
against 958 million at present.
Likewise, Asia’s
population will increase from 4.3 billion to 5.2 billion in 2050 Ined
Forecasts.
Currently, the world’s most populated
are China with 1.3 billion
people; followed by India (1.2 billion); the United States (316.2 million);
Indonesia (248.5 million) and Brazil (195.5 million).
But in 2050, India will take pole position with 1.6 billion people with
China in second place at 1.3 billion.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, will outstrip the United States
with a population of 444 million against a projected 400 million Americans in
the middle of the century.
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