The UN Population Division report of 2022 projects world population to continue growing after 2050, although at a steadily decreasing rate, to peak at 10.4 billion in 2086, and then to start a slow decline to about 10.3 billion in 2100 with a growth rate at that time of -0.1%.
This estinmate is dropping almost every year. If the worlds population growth goes into reverse
How will we cope with a shrinking workforce, an aging population, and potential economic challenges, but also potentially lower resource consumption and environmental impact
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@JonLosAngeles66 Well I think that was my key purpose in opening this blog. I think that a daclining population means economic growth stalls and we go into a permenant recession and our whole economic system isnt geared to cope with recession.
@Captain I hope I'm not too heretical, but liberal democracies with a socially conscious capitalism have had low birth rates, high income, well-educated people for a long time.
@helenS Yes but as others have stated high levels of immigration and I think this works a bit like the Roman Empire, you come in a slave and by the time a few more bunches of slaves come in your either not a slave or dead, so the system sort of builds itself - and that's my concern, its still reliant on new people to fuel it - born or immgrated .
