Earth's population to reach 9.3 billion people by 2050

[skooooo]

http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/07/09/60561.html

17:48 2005-07-09
The Earth's population will grow from 6.5 billion to 9.3 billion people by 2050. The message from the German Foundation for World Population (DWS), which was published in Austria Saturday, said that the population of planet Earth was increasing by the average of 80 million people every year, which corresponds to the entire population of Germany, for example.

DWS experts said that the 95-percent increase of the global population would be presumably registered in developing countries, RIA Novosti reports. The population of the African continent will raise by one billion people before 2050. The population in Asia will grow by 1.4 billion in Asia and by 246 million people in Latin America. As for industrially developed states, the population will be decreasing there, specialists said.

[Mari333]

1. in 2050 I will be dead as a doornail so Im doing my part

by dying , that is.
on edit: I damn well better get social security before I croak

[mike_c]

4. hi Mari333....

OT, but I this is the first post I've seen from you in some time. How are you? Did you ever get down to Mexico? :hi:

[Mari333]

6. No, Im still in Michigan

my husbands death threw me for the last year..been trying to pick up the pieces for the last 11 months..slowly coming back to life now.

[mike_c]

8. well, it's good to see you on DU again!

xoxo
Mike C.

[Mari333]

9. Thanks..takes a long time to recover

thanks.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. "As for industrially developed states..."

"the population will be decreasing there, specialists said."

Until the Latin Americans and Asians immigrate to the industrially developed states, that is.

[cire4]

14. Would the Asians and Latin Americans have to immigrate?

It is likely that places like China, India, and Brazil will be fully industrialized, developed, and prosperous by 2050. The people of these countries will find it less and less necessary to immigrate to a 'Western' country for a job.

Perhaps, it will be people from currently developed countries (US, Europe, Australia etc) who will be immigrating to these new prosperous economies of the 21st century...

[getmeouttahere]

3. And 9 billion, 200 million of them will still hate BushCo!

We are the majority, people!

[James T. Kirk]

5. Way to go, humanity!

We're thriving!

[rayofreason]

7. Lots more people...

...will need lots more energy.

Fire up those nuclear reactors unless you want global warming with an attitude.

[whistle]

10. Just imagine the armies that could be mobilized with those....

...kinds of numbers, eh!:sarcasm: Any idea how much of a drain on natural resources a 50% increase in world population will be in just under 45 years from now? I recall what the world was like 45 years ago, that was 1960 when there were roughly 3.2 billion people. It was right at the trough of the post war baby boom and the beginning of a new baby boom. In the 45 years which followed, world population even with the efforts of population controls has still managed to double in that period. It appears that governments and societies are actually relaxing population controls and I am not optimistic about seeing just a 2.8 billion increase in population over the next 45 years.

These will be numbers that result from neglect of mass health care and world famine, in other words the result of mass population die-offs. The conditions and pressures that will be created by that sort of social collapse will be catastrophic. With world leaders like we have in power now, we may be heading over that population cliff a lot quicker than we think.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. Not bloody likely.

Two billion, and dropping, is my guess.

Energy wars, water wars, catastrophic climate change - it won't be pretty.

[Igel]

12. It's a bit higher than the UNFPA's

http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2004/english/ch1/page7.htm#1

8.9 billion's the more usual estimate (with 9.3+ being possible, but on the high side). Fertility rates keep dropping slightly faster than expected.

If they continue to go the way they're expected to go, 2060 or so is peak population, with fairly rapid depopulation to manageable numbers within a couple of generations.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Talking of condom use in the developing world

There are some novel uses by enterprising Indians:

“People get through 600,000 condoms a day in this city alone,” Mahfooz Alam of the Weavers Movement told reporters in Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), “but only about a quarter of them are actually used for sex. Ever since the government started giving them away free through the family planning department, people have been stocking up with as many as they can get, and finding all sorts of industrial uses for them. Some workmen mix them with tar and concrete to give a smooth finish to roads, or to make waterproof ceilings, and some villagers use them to carry water when working in the fields. And, of course, youths turn them into water bombs. But the main use here is in the sari industry, where they’ve become an essential part of the production process.”

Alam was explaining how Varanasi (population 1.3 million) manages to consume so many condoms each day. “There are 200,000 hand looms in this city, all making the world-famous Banarasi saris, and all using condoms. It’s the lubricant that’s the main attraction. Sari weavers place the condoms on the spools, and the lubricant rubs off on the thread, making it move faster through their machines. Then they turn the condoms inside out, place them on their fingers, and use the lubricant to polish the gold and silver threads used in traditional women’s outfits, giving them a lustrous sheen. Lately, government officials have got wise to the scam, and are restricting the number of free condoms they’ll hand out, so weavers have to register several times with fake identities to get a sufficient supply. If another better lubricant was available, then we’d consider using it, but nothing works as well as condoms.”

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/content/showitem.cfm/issue.1136/section.fow

[SmileyBoy]

15. Ugh. I'll be 62 by then.

I hope that I'll be able to live to a ripe old age without something catastrophic happening.