BasvanS t1_je0x5j0 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 4:50 PM

Reply to comment by mperklin in Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion by madrid987

Yeah, the thought it triggered with me is “Where will the population peak? 10 billion? 11? More?”

quokka70 t1_je3imlx wrote on March 29, 2023 at 3:33 AM

The UN thinks it might be 9.5 billion...or more than 12.

https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Line/900

Prediction is hard.

savvy-misanthrope t1_je8s98l wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:28 AM

I find your comment to be the most pertinent in this thread. You're right, prediction is hard, and the article is merely speculative, so pretty much worthless IMO.