World’s Population to stop growing by 2100 – Pew Research Center

Despite everyone’s knowledge that the world’s population is continuously rising over the decades, the Pew Research Center (PRC) of the United Nations (UN) projected different data. Due to a large part of falling global fertility rates, the PRC projected the population to reach approximately 10.9 billion, with annual growth of less than 0.1% – a steep decline from the current rate.

Between 1950 and today, the world’s population grew between 1% and 2% each year, with the number of people rising from 2.5 billion to more than 7.7 billion.

According to their projections, the rate is expected to fall below the replacement fertility rate (2.1 births per woman) by 2070. The replacement fertility rate is the number of births per woman needed to maintain a population’s size.

In their study, they revealed that Africa is the only continent that will have strong population growth for the rest of the century. Africa’s population is expected to increase from 1.3 billion to 4.3 billion. Projections show these gains will come mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, which is expected to more than triple in population by 2100.

The regions that include the United States and Canada (Northern America) and Australia and New Zealand (Oceania) are projected to grow throughout the rest of the century too, but at slower rates than Africa.

As of the writing, the Philippines already has a population of 108.1 million.