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The economics of a shrinking world

The increase in the world’s population is not exponential. The global population is growing, but the growth rate has declined since its peak six decades ago.

Demographers warned for decades that ageing, declining states grow more dangerous, not less. The wars now spreading from Eastern Europe to the Gulf to East Asia look increasingly like the opening engagements of a long contest over who outlasts whom.

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Fertility rates — which measure the average number of children per woman — have been falling worldwide. Since 1950, global fertility rates have halved, from almost 5 children per woman to 2.2, Our World in Data (OWID) reports.

Humanity has probably already fallen below the fertility rate it needs to replace itself, and nobody noticed it happening.

According to UN calculations, the world's population will cross the 10-billion mark in 2061. By the end of the century, however, this number will have started to decline slightly, having reached a high around 10.3bn in 2084, Statista reports.

Nearly 10% of the planet’s human inhabitants live within 3.1 miles of the coast − where the risk of climate disasters is often highest.

If you were only paying attention to the ravings of pronatalists, you’d be thinking that the plummeting global population numbers are a disaster looming on

Demographers warned for decades that ageing, declining states grow more dangerous, not less. The wars now spreading from Eastern Europe to the Gulf to East Asia look increasingly like the opening engagements of a long contest over who outlasts whom.

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Whether collectively called Africa and Asia, the Global South, developing countries, or simply the poorer parts, there is no doubt that in population terms they dominate the world. - - Asia already accounts for around 60% of the worlds population. By 2050 Africas high fertility rates are likely to mean over a quarter of the worlds population lives there.

Whether collectively called Africa and Asia, the Global South, developing countries, or simply the poorer parts, there is no doubt that in population terms they dominate the world. - - Asia already accounts for around 60% of the worlds population. By 2050 Africas high fertility rates are likely to mean over a quarter of the worlds population lives there.

The deadliest animal based on the number of human deaths per year is not one that humans usually find scary, such as a shark or snake.

The current world population has surpassed 8 billion

Main object or target of ‘limits to growth’ was climate change and global population growth, yet fossil fuel researchers understood global warming was being caused by carbon emissions. …