Norwester77 t1_jdyni8l wrote
Reply to comment by patman_007 in Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion by madrid987
No, they’re saying the population is projected to top out at 8.6 billion, so the population growth rate must already be well off its peak.
If this graphic is to be believed, the global population growth rate hit its maximum somewhere around 1980-1990:
quokka70 t1_je3ian0 wrote
And that's the absolute change.
The growth rate, relative to the population at the time, topped out in 1963.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-growth-rates?tab=chart
Norwester77 t1_je3ihy3 wrote
Absolute change per year is a rate, too, no?
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