UN/“World Population Prospects 2024”: How the global fertility rate rises to 2.3 live births per woman, down from 3.3 in 1990

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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.

The report also reveals that the global fertility rate stands at 2.3 live births per woman, down from 3.3 births in 1990. More than half of all countries and regions in the world have fertility below 2.1 births per woman, the level required for a population to maintain a constant size in the long term without migration.

In this context, the document indicates that by 2024, 4.7 million babies, or about 3.5% of the global total, will be born to mothers under 18, noting that countries with young populations and declining fertility have limited time to benefit economically from a growing concentration of the working-age population.