How big will global population be in 2100? Some 10 or 11 billion, according to the UN. But some demographers think that estimate is way to high. Back in 2013, I blogged about a projection from Sanjeev Sanyal of Deutsche Bank. His calculations find the world’s overall fertility rate falling to the replacement rate in 2025, although global population will continue to expand for a few decades thanks in part to rising longevity: “We forecast that world population will peak around 2055 at 8.7 billion and will then decline to 8.0 billion by 2100. In other words, our …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research