The world will have 9.7 billion people by 2050

A new report published by the French Demographic Research Institute shows that the world population will increase to 9.7 billion by 2050.

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On October 2, a French study predicts that the world population will increase from the current 7.1 billion people to 9.7 billion people by 2050 and India will overtake the Chinese throne to become the eastern nation. the world's most people.

Also according to a report by the French Institute of Demographic Research (INED), by the end of the 21st century, the Earth will be a common home for about 10-11 billion people.

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This report is made in parallel with UN programs, the World Bank and other organizations to predict the world's population growth. A June report from the United Nations said that the world population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and the number of people over 60 will increase from the current 841 million to 2 billion by 2050 and nearly 3 billion in 2100.

INED's research shows that Africa's population will account for a quarter of the world's population by 2050 with about 2.5 billion people, twice the current level.

Researcher Gilles Pison, the author of this report, said the current fertility rate in Africa is 4.8 women per woman, much higher than the world average of 2.5 children.

America's population will exceed 1 billion people by 2050, while Asia's population will increase from the current 4.3 billion to 5.2 billion by 2050.

Currently the most populous country in the world today is China with 1.3 billion people, followed by India with 1.2 billion people. But by 2050, India's population will reach 1.6 billion people and take the world's most populous nation from China.

By the middle of the 21st century, Nigeria's most populous country, Nigeria with 444 million people, will surpass the United States with a population of 400 million.