The human species has topped 8 billion, with longer lifespans offsetting fewer births, but world population growth continues a long-term trend of slowing down, the US Census Bureau said Thursday.
The bureau estimates that the global population exceeded the threshold on 26 September, though the agency said to take this precise date with a grain of salt.
The United Nations estimated the number was passed 10 months earlier, having declared 22 November 2022, the “Day of 8 Billion”, the Census Bureau pointed out in a statement.
The discrepancy is due to countries counting people differently — or not at all. Many lack systems to record births and deaths. Some of the most populous countries, such as India and Nigeria, haven’t conducted censuses in over a decade, according to the bureau.
While world population growth remains brisk, growing from 6 billion to 8 billion since the turn of the millennium, the rate has slowed since doubling between 1960 and 2000.
overpopulation is not about minimum requirements to sustain life in individuals to me. Its about what population the planet can sustain while renewing the resources used each year for each individual in the population to enjoy a modern, educated, fullfilling life. I agree there are little to no solutions for it. I swear though that population peak has been predicted for awhile as just a bit off but we seem to keep on growing. I think we will grow till we crash more than likely.
What have you studied to conclude it will continue to grow? Just your intuition?
The professionals in the video (with sources in the comments) have studied the growth and we’re right on track.
There are more than enough riches on earth for every single on of those 12b people to live a modern life. Which is more than can be said about people living that life in 2023. It’s not more people that made the wage gap.
On the first part it is continuing to grow as of now just like the professionals say. If you mean predictions of the future I just was remarking that for decades I have heard about a peak and leveling off but it always seems 20 or more years away. Like fusion. There are currently not enough “riches” to provide for what humanity is using now even with not a 100% of the 8b leading a modern life that the world can renew. 1970 was about the time the population was using the amount of resources that the world was able to regenerate. Thus the birth of world overshoot day. I believe this year was august second and we are currently eating into next years materials
This is a straight up lie. It’s not “20 years away”. I didn’t even give you a year, because you don’t understand that’s not how the math works.
The 12th billion human won’t be born because there won’t be economic incentive for it. Watch the damn video, baby booming is only proportional to child mortality, which after a certain economic level people stop needed 10 kids. Then the population starts to recede and age. Just look at the video ffs
I used that term in the generic and im talking about articles popping up over time not this particular one. Usually its said 20+ years away. I did not mean they were saying before we would hit it in 20 years but just that they have predicitons about peaks that seem to change regularly as time goes by. I swear we were supposed to hit peak before 8 billion at one point. EDITED - um also I read the article but did not watch a video. Im not sure what video you are talking about but I do use no script and by and large do not watch videos. That being said my conversation has not been about this particular article but about the general subject of overpopulation. Which I think we are. Based on what I have wrote. Which by the way. ARE OPINIONS. As is everything anyone writes in forums.