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What Goes Up…: World Population Growth has Slowed, and Some Countries are Actually Declining: Numbers Don't Lie.
- Source :
- IEEE Spectrum; Oct2021, Vol. 58 Issue 10, p18-19, 2p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In 1960, Science published a paper by Heinz von Foerster predicting that on Friday, 13 November 2026, the “human population will approach infinity if it grows as it has grown in the last two millennia.” Just a few years after this preposterous doomsday alarm, the annual growth of global population peaked at about 2.1 percent and immediately began to decline. By 2020 the growth rate stood at just a bit more than 1 percent, the result of the steadily declining total fertility rate (TFR), the number of children born to a woman during her reproductive period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FERTILITY decline
SCIENCE publishing
COUNTRIES
INFINITY (Mathematics)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189235
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Spectrum
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 153731475
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2021.9563961