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Why estimate for world population in 2100 now 11 billion
2014-09-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Earth's human population is expected to continue growing through the end of the century, with an 80 percent likelihood that it will reach 10.9 billion from today's nearly 7.3 billion, according to updated estimates from the United Nations. The projections stand in stark contrast to a widely held idea that the human population would peak in 2050 at about 9 billion. The revised numbers were published online Thursday afternoon by the journal Science in a paper summarizing data that the UN's Department...
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