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World population may hit 11 billion by 2100: study

2014-09-18 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: The world population may grow larger than previously estimated, reaching 11 billion people by century's end, according to a UN-led analysis published Thursday. That would mean two billion more people on Earth than expected by 2100, largely due to high birth rates in Africa, said the report in the US journal Science. "The consensus over the past 20 years or so was that world population, which is currently around seven billion, would go up to nine billion and level off or probably decline," said...

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