[Coral-List] human population reaches 8 billion about now, when will it peak?

[Douglas Fenner]

I just noticed that the "Nature Briefing" newsletter that I subscribe to
(it is free) which has a daily email that has a few short popular articles
on science, and which linked to the page I posted, had a little info that
wasn't in what I posted the link to.

That additional info:


   - Most of the projected increase in the global population between 2022
   and 2050 is expected to occur in just eight countries: the Democratic
   Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the
   Philippines and Tanzania.
   - India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous
   country in 2023.

I thought that might be interesting additional info.
Cheers, Doug

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 4:13 PM Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Human population is important for coral reefs, because population
> multiplies all the things that people do that damage reefs.  Estimates of
> future population growth depend on recording and estimating death rates and
> birth rates.  Records and estimates have been improving, but there are
> still significant uncertainties, and the uncertainties in the future
> increase the farther ahead in time the prediction is.  The UN has
> apparently released a new population report, and here is a summary of come
> of the findings:
>
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03720-6
> open-access
>
> Cheers, Doug
> --
> Douglas Fenner
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>
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>
> UN: World on fast track to disaster, but we can avert it
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xBVD8r0aHQ
>
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