Dear MEL Topic Readers,
India to overtake China as the world's most
populous country: UN
The world’s population was about 2.5 billion in
1950, six billion in 2000, seven billion in 2012, and 7.7 billion this year.
So, there are over three times as many people now as were shortly after WWII on
the planet. That is quite a leap in a very short period of time in Homo
Sapience’s seventy-some millennium history. And the increase has been accelerated
especially for the last two decades, which have added nearly two billion people.
The world is surely getting more crowded especially in Asia and Africa.
And for the next three decades, the world is
predicted to add two more billion people. The growth rate declines as over 50
countries are expected to lose their populations more than one percent mainly
due to low fertility rate. China alone is going to lose 300 million people by
2050 due to the decreasing fertility rate that is caused by urbanization, later
marriage, and rising living, especially education costs.
The growth is expected to come from other
part of Asia, but not from eastern countries like Japan or Korea but from South
and Southeast Asia like India, Pakistan, and Indonesia and also from Africa.
For example, Nigeria, whose present-day population is about two hundred million,
is expected to add more than half a billion people just in the next three
decades.
Will the world have enough food and fresh water,
not sea water, to feed this rapid population growth? Also, will the environment
allow humans and other species to survive?
Enjoy reading and think how far 2050 is from
now, not only for us but also for our children.
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