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The UN has just revealed, in a report published last Thursday entitled “World Population Prospects 2024” and presented at a press conference in New York, that the world population is expected to continue to grow for another 50 or 60 years.
Prepared by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the document highlights that one in four people in the world lives in a country whose population has already peaked, noting that in 63 countries and areas, home to 28 per cent of the world’s population in 2024, the population size peaked before the current year.
In 48 countries and areas, with 10% of the world’s population in 2024, population size is projected to peak between 2025 and 2054. In the remaining 126 countries and areas, population would continue to grow until 2054, potentially peaking later in the century or beyond 2100.
