Jokodo
Veteran Member
"the population will continue to grow, albeit at a slowing rate, in sub-Saharan Africa, though it has effectively ground to a halt in the rest of the world, including most of the developing world".
What's the 'it' in that sentence?
If it's population growth, then that has not ground to a halt outside developed regions, it's increasing.
It's most definitely not increasing.
In the most recent year of data, 2014, China added 6.5 million to its population. 50 years ago, that figure was 21 million per year.
In 2015, Brazil added 1.72 million people to its population. The same figure was at 2.93 in the early 80s.
Both countries today have below replacement fertility rates, meaning that the figures will drop below 0 without a change in behaviour of its people - all that needs to happen is for the people born in the 50s, 60s and 70s to grow old enough to die of age related causes in significant numbers - pretty unavoidable if you ask me.
In India, the number is 15.2, down from 18.6 in the 90s. In Indonesia, 2.99 million, down from 3.53. And while both countries still have above replacement fertility rates, the numbers are rapidly approaching 2.0.
The claim that population growth is increasing is clearly false.
ETA: link: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-growth-the-annual-change-of-the-population
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