Anonymous
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10/26/2025, 2:39:56 AM
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Be grateful for the Indians while you can. You don't know you're in the good old days while you're in them.
In 2025, the world’s population stands at 8.2 billion, with Australia home to about 27 million people. The United Nations continues to update its population projections, but each new report seems to paint a more modest picture of global growth. Back in 2017, the UN projected that humanity would peak at 11.2 billion sometime after 2100. By 2024, however, that forecast had been revised downward to a peak of 10.4 billion in 2084. Even its so-called “low” scenario now envisions a world population of 8.8 billion by 2054 but that estimate still assumes Africa won’t follow the same rapid fertility decline that every other region has already experienced.
India, once the main engine of population growth, is seeing its own fertility rates collapse, with many states already below replacement level. Each new report lowers the projected population further, suggesting even the “low” scenarios may still be too high.
The long-assumed 10-billion mark increasingly looks like a pipe dream. Fertility is dropping almost everywhere, and no country has ever returned to higher levels once the decline began. For the first time in history, humanity is approaching a population peak, after which numbers will steadily shrink. Global population is now expected to top out below 9 billion before entering an era of permanent decline.
In 2025, the world’s population stands at 8.2 billion, with Australia home to about 27 million people. The United Nations continues to update its population projections, but each new report seems to paint a more modest picture of global growth. Back in 2017, the UN projected that humanity would peak at 11.2 billion sometime after 2100. By 2024, however, that forecast had been revised downward to a peak of 10.4 billion in 2084. Even its so-called “low” scenario now envisions a world population of 8.8 billion by 2054 but that estimate still assumes Africa won’t follow the same rapid fertility decline that every other region has already experienced.
India, once the main engine of population growth, is seeing its own fertility rates collapse, with many states already below replacement level. Each new report lowers the projected population further, suggesting even the “low” scenarios may still be too high.
The long-assumed 10-billion mark increasingly looks like a pipe dream. Fertility is dropping almost everywhere, and no country has ever returned to higher levels once the decline began. For the first time in history, humanity is approaching a population peak, after which numbers will steadily shrink. Global population is now expected to top out below 9 billion before entering an era of permanent decline.
