India 'most populous nation' by 2028

[Troy]

India looks set to overtake China as the world's most populous country from 2028, according to the UnitedNations.

At that point, both nations will number 1.45 billion people each. Subsequently India's population will continue to grow until the middle of the century, while China's slowly declines.

The UN also estimates that the current global population of 7.2 billion will reach 9.6 billion by 2050.

That is a faster rate of growth than previously estimated.

The population growth will be mainly in developing countries, particularly in Africa, the UN says.

The world's 49 least developed countries are projected to double in size from around 900 million people in 2013 to 1.8 billion in 2050, whereas the population of developed regions will remain largely unchanged.

The UN said the reason for the increase in its projection is largely new information on fertility levels in certain high birth rate countries

Large developing countries, such as China, India and Brazil, have seen a rapid fall in the average number of children per woman, but in other nations,
such as Nigeria, Niger, Ethiopia and Uganda, fertility levels remain high.

Nigeria's population is expected to exceed that of the US by the middle of the century, and could start to rival China's by 2100.

China's population is expected to start decreasing after 2030.

"Although population growth has slowed for the world as a whole, this report reminds us that some developing countries, especially in Africa, are still
growing rapidly," commented Wu Hongbo, the UN's Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.

The United Nations publishes an assessment of past, current and future population trends every two years, in a recurrent series known as the World Population Prospects

Researchers have used data for 233 countries and areas to produce Friday's report.

Worrying signs that they now estimate world population to reach close to 10 billion. At least China implemented a smart plan decades ago to start to combat their population spiralling out of control and now that they are a developed nation people are naturally going to have less children anyway. As a country becomes more developed birth rate drops dramatically as there isn't the need to have as many children. India eventually passing China doesn't surprise as they haven't implemented many controls to combat it and they currently lag behind China in the development stakes. Nigeria's line on the chart is pretty scary, never would have predicted them to be able to reach 1 billion when they have less than 200 million now. This shows how vital it is to help convert developing nations into developed nations to combat population growth.

Going to take a long, long time for the world's population to reduce to a sustainable and sensible number. There hasn't been a major pandemic for centuries though so maybe we are due.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

Kind of scary when you think about it. Soon there will be no room on Earth so we'll have to colonize the moon!

 

[We Are Legion]

Why the fuck are people moving to Nigeria? Seems like a country (and a continent, rather) that you'd want to get away from.

 

[Deezy]

Why are we allowed to cull overpopulated animals to insure no disease wipes em all out and not with humans? Seeks like we are all ripe for a new plague wipe out overpopulated areas and metropolitan areas. Does anyone not learn anything from farms? That's how chickens started bird flu and that's how mad cow spread, small fitting farms and shitty food, sounds like overpopulated slums to me.

 

[Troy]

Why the fuck are people moving to Nigeria? Seems like a country (and a continent, rather) that you'd want to get away from.

People aren't moving there they are just having a lot of kids. Nigeria currently has a fertility rate of 5.5 kids per woman, for comparison US has a rate of around 2, UK 1.9, Australia 1.75 and Canada 1.6. Unless that fertility rate drops rapidly in the coming decade, like it did for South Africa in the past decade, then their population will explode.

Why are we allowed to cull overpopulated animals to insure no disease wipes em all out and not with humans? Seeks like we are all ripe for a new plague wipe out overpopulated areas and metropolitan areas. Does anyone not learn anything from farms? That's how chickens started bird flu and that's how mad cow spread, small fitting farms and shitty food, sounds like overpopulated slums to me.

As I mentioned in the OP we haven't had a massive pandemic since the Black Plague which wiped out around 1/4 of the population. We are long overdue for something like that and with crowded cities and poor conditions in those areas there is a good chance it could occur. Culling humans would never be allowed even if all the data pointed out that it would be beneficial. Forced sterilisation is looked upon as a horrible concept but it is a much better and more humane option. The issue with that is that it doesn't have an immediate impact so it isn't perfect. Soon enough people will have to consider "the greater good" and they may realise that reducing the world's population to sustainable levels should be a priority.

 

[Nate]

In order to make room for the growing population they'll have to destroy a bunch of farmlands. Which means that a hell of a lot more processed foods are going to be around (and most likely new forms of artificial foods will be invented and produced)... yaaaay...

 

[Mick Donalds]

As I mentioned in the OP we haven't had a massive pandemic since the Black Plague which wiped out around 1/4 of the population. We are long overdue for something like that and with crowded cities and poor conditions in those areas there is a good chance it could occur. Culling humans would never be allowed even if all the data pointed out that it would be beneficial. Forced sterilisation is looked upon as a horrible concept but it is a much better and more humane option. The issue with that is that it doesn't have an immediate impact so it isn't perfect. Soon enough people will have to consider "the greater good" and they may realise that reducing the world's population to sustainable levels should be a priority.

Very true. With how much we rely on antibiotics these days, it wouldn't surprise me if a bacterial strain develops into a super-mega-hyper strain and ends up culling A LOT of people because of its resistance to antibiotics. Let's just hope it happens in Spain first.

 

[Troy]

Very true. With how much we rely on antibiotics these days, it wouldn't surprise me if a bacterial strain develops into a super-mega-hyper strain and ends up culling A LOT of people because of its resistance to antibiotics. Let's just hope it happens in Spain first.

Something has to break soon. There have been minor scares with Bird Flu and Pig Flu but soon enough there probably will be a strain that does affect a large portion of the population.

Can I ask why Spain? For me they aren't really the issue, the issue is parts of Africa and Asia where the fertility rates are at ridiculously high levels and they are the last countries that can afford to support a larger population.

 

[Mick Donalds]

Can I ask why Spain? For me they aren't really the issue, the issue is parts of Africa and Asia where the fertility rates are at ridiculously high levels and they are the last countries that can afford to support a larger population.

Spain deserves to be culled almost as much as Pakistan does.

 

[We Are Legion]

Ok...

 

[Kiffy Lube]

I don't have an opinion on this because I don't have enough money to judge human life.