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[deleted] t1_iyehvww wrote

Reply to comment by catfink1664 in 8 billion people will die in the next century by NMLWrightReddit

That number per year will increase as population has increased. Unless we suddenly get a lot of people living more than 100 years then more than 8 billion (current population) will die in the next 100

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catfink1664 t1_iyeyb2a wrote

That assumes that the population does increase though. There are two schools of thought on that one, and also, worldwide political instability increasing. People are living longer, but in the developed world, birth rates are slowing. But no one can actually predict the future, and for sure i don’t have 100 years left, so i’ll never know for sure who was right

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[deleted] t1_iyf0694 wrote

No, it doesn't assume the population has to increase. The CURRENT population is 8 billion. Almost all of those 8 billion will be dead in 100 years. In addition to the current 8 billion, millions more are born daily who won't make it to 99.5 years, and 100s of millions more will be born in the next 5 years who won't make it to 95, etc, while very few of the current 8 billion will still be alive in 101 years.

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