Sputnik, Anton Kurilkin
The report of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN Secretariat, published in early June, recorded many demographic paradoxes. Sputnik figured out the trends for the next century and told how the upcoming changes will affect the countries of the post-Soviet space.
Life expectancy in Russia has increased significantly, from 66.6 years in the early 1990s to 71.2 in 2017. By the end of the century, this figure will rise to 83.4. Since the collapse of the USSR, the average life expectancy in all countries of the post-Soviet space has increased. There are several reasons for this growth, but the main one is the improvement in the quality of life.
This is a global trend: such dynamics can be traced in all countries of the world without exception. And it would seem that a positive conclusion can be drawn: living conditions are becoming more comfortable, and the world is safer, but the changes will inevitably lead to the aging of the population, and against the backdrop of a decline in the birth rate, to its extinction. Experts come to shocking conclusions: by 2050, there will be three times as many people over 80 years old on the globe (425 million).
What is the paradox?
The world population is growing rapidly. In 2017, the world's population will grow to 7.55 billion people. This is facilitated by the average life expectancy at around 71.9, as well as a high fertility rate (average number of births per woman), which is 2.47.
At the same time, in most post-Soviet countries, the population is dying out: serious concerns are caused by the situation in Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine. Positive dynamics remains only in the countries of Central Asia and Azerbaijan.
In the Soviet years, the opposite trend was observed. The population of all republics except Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, the RSFSR and Ukraine increased in the second half of the eighties. The demographic situation changed dramatically in the 1990s, when the population of the countries of the former USSR began to decline sharply. By the beginning of the 21st century, positive dynamics persisted only in the countries of Central Asia and Azerbaijan.
2050: extinction begins
By the middle of the century, the demographic situation in the post-Soviet countries will only worsen. The population on the territory of the former USSR will decrease by 2.2 million, and the average life expectancy will be 77 years. Estonians will live the longest - an average of 82 years and 9 months, while in Turkmenistan life expectancy will be the lowest (71.6 years).
As UN experts predict, the positive situation will continue in Azerbaijan and the countries of Central Asia, but not for long - after 2050, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, like the countries of Europe, will begin to die out.
The human population will reach the bar of 9.7 billion people. Asia will remain the most populous continent. In terms of population, India will overtake China by 300 million people, and Nigeria will displace the United States from third place. Russia will be in this list in 15th place.
Every day the number of inhabitants on our planet is growing. This is due to many factors and varies from one to another. Therefore, it is very difficult to keep track of how many people live in the world. However, approximate data still exist.
The population of the planet
Today, about 7 billion people live in the world, it is difficult to give exact data, since someone is constantly born and someone dies. For the most part, the population of a country depends on several factors, including the level of development of the state and, in particular, medicine, the standard of living and even the temperament of a person.
Many centuries ago, there were much fewer people on Earth, but over time this figure has grown rapidly. Despite world epidemics, diseases and the terrible continue to multiply and populate every piece of the planet. Most of the population lives in the most developed metropolitan areas, where the standard of living is higher than in small cities, the same applies to countries. About half of the people live in the most populated countries.
China
The first place rightfully occupied by this country almost reaches the figure of 1.5 billion, that is, almost 1/5 of how many people there are in the world today. Despite the fact that the state authorities are trying in every possible way to regulate the birth rate, the number of inhabitants of the country is still growing rapidly, increasing by about 8.7 million annually.
India
If we talk about how many people are now in the world, then the second place among the most populated states belongs to India. About 1.17 billion people live here, which is about 17% of the total world population. The annual population growth in this country is about 18 million people, that is, the Indians have every chance to bypass the Chinese in terms of the number.
USA
With a constant influx of immigrants from less developed neighboring countries, the United States is one of the most populous countries in the world. About 307 million people of various nationalities live in this state.
Indonesia
The fourth position in the list is occupied by a state located in Southeast Asia. About 240 million people live on its territory, which is about 3.5% of the total
Brazil
The first five are concluded by this sunny country, which is also the most populated state in South America. Exactly 3% of how many people in the world live in Brazil. The number of inhabitants of this state reaches 198 million inhabitants.
Pakistan
Sixth place belongs to Pakistan, which, according to the latest data, has about 176 million inhabitants, which make up 2.6% of the total population of our planet.
Bangladesh
The country, located in South Asia, is home to 156 million people. That is, the number of Bangladeshis is about 2.3% of the inhabitants of the planet Earth.
Nigeria
This African country is also in the top ten in terms of the number of inhabitants. The number of people living here reaches 149 million, that is, 2.2% of all people on the planet. In addition, Nigeria occupies a leading position in terms of fertility, which may soon help it overtake Bangladesh.
Russia
A significant part of how many people live on the planet falls on Russia. Despite the fact that Russia in terms of population, it is only in 9th place. This is due to the fact that here the death rate significantly exceeds the birth rate. The territory of this state accounts for about 2% of the population of the entire Earth, that is, about 140 million people.
Japan
The Land of the Rising Sun closes the top ten, which, however, is the most developed of all those presented above. Approximately 127 million people live here, that is, 1.9% of the earth's population. What is important, since the country is in a somewhat mothballed state, almost all of its population are native Japanese.
Conclusion
The World Health Organization regulates the population of states and controls how many people there are in the world. In order to somehow reduce the birth rate in very poor African countries, missionaries are regularly sent there to give lectures to the local population and provide them with the necessary contraception. Other states are taking other measures. For example, in China, the authorities are fighting too high a birth rate by imposing taxes on families who want to have more than one child. But such measures are urgently needed, because the resources of our planet are limited, and they are greatly influenced by how many people there are in the world. Therefore, it is simply necessary to avoid in order to prevent an environmental catastrophe and a serious depletion of all the natural resources of our planet Earth in the future.
"The population of the world ... What associations do everyone who hears this phrase have?" asks author Irene N. in her article. Further, she claims that every 0.24 seconds another baby is born on our planet, and in an hour the world's population is replenished by more than 15 thousand newborns. And almost every minute (0.56 seconds) a person dies, and our world loses almost 6.5 thousand people per hour.
On this topic, I found it interesting that Ph.D. Monty White, who claims that the population of the Earth increased to seven billion during exactly the period indicated in the Bible. However, read below.
Everything is very simple - ordinary arithmetic speaks of the absolute mathematical reasonableness of the young age of the earth.
Creationists are often asked, "How could the earth's population reach 6.5 billion people if the earth is only about 6,000 years old, and if only two people lived on it at the very beginning?" Let's see what simple arithmetic tells us.
One plus one equals billions
Let's start from the beginning - with one man and one woman. Now suppose they get married and have kids, and then their kids get married and have kids too. Let's also assume that the population doubles every 150 years. Therefore, in 150 years, four people will live on earth, in another 150 years, eight people, and in another 150 years, sixteen people, and so on. It should be noted that this rate of population growth is actually very conservative. In fact, even accounting for disease, famine, and natural disasters, the population has recently doubled approximately every 40 years.1 
After 32 times the population doubling, which is only 4800 years, the world population would reach almost 8.6 billion people. This is 2 billion more people than lives on earth today, namely 6.5 billion people. This figure was recorded on March 1, 2006 by the US Census Bureau.2 This simple calculation shows that if you start with Adam and Eve and take into account the standard population growth rate that we just noted above, then the modern population figure could perfectly be achieved for 6000 years.
Influence of the Flood
However, we know from the Bible that around 2500 BC (4,500 years ago) the global Flood reduced the number of people on earth to eight people.3 But if we assume that the population doubles every 150 years, we again see that if to start counting with Noah's family in 2500 BC, 4500 years would be more than enough for the current population to reach 6.5 billion.
From two people who were created 6,000 years ago, and then from eight people who were on board Noah's Ark about 4,500 years ago, the world's population could easily have grown to the figure we celebrate today - more than 6.5 billion people.
Evolutionists always tell us that humans have been on earth for hundreds of thousands of years. If we still assume that people have existed for about 50,000 years and use the above calculation method, the result would be that the population doubled 332 times, and the number of people on earth would be simply enormous - the number followed by one hundred zeros 100 ; that is:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000.
This number is actually simply impossible to imagine, since it is billions of times greater than the number of atoms in the entire universe! Such a calculation shows how meaningless is the statement that people have existed on earth for tens of thousands of years.
Everything is very simple - ordinary arithmetic speaks of the absolute mathematical reasonableness of the young age of the earth. From two people who were created 6,000 years ago, and then from eight people who were on board Noah's Ark about 4,500 years ago, the world's population could easily have grown to the figure we celebrate today - more than 6.5 billion people.
Today, more than 7.5 billion people live on Earth, while 2.7 billion are citizens of just two countries - India and China. The demographic picture of the world is much more interesting than just dry numbers reflecting the population. It includes information about the national composition, age structure, migration processes, age parameters of the inhabitants of our planet.
More recently, at the beginning of the 20th century, the world's population was about 1.6 billion people. Just 60 years later, the world celebrated the birth of the 3 billionth inhabitant of the Earth. And since the mid-1960s, world leaders have seriously attended to the problem of overpopulation, the population of the planet began to grow so rapidly. According to experts, the number of inhabitants of the globe by the end of the XXI century will cross the line of 11 billion.
African children But population growth is not observed in all parts of the world. Over the past 20-30 years, the regions with rapidly increasing rates include the countries of Southeast Asia and Africa, such as India, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Egypt, Congo, Thailand, and the Philippines. Slightly smaller, but also stable growth is observed in the countries of America: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina.
This is what most trains in India look like Despite the fact that the population of India today is less than that of China (1.348 billion Hindus and 1.412 Chinese), scientists predict that by 2020 India will rank first in the world in this indicator. This is partly due to the fact that birth control measures have been in place in China for a long time. But today, due to a sharp decline in the proportion of children and young people in Chinese society, the country's leadership has decided to lift these bans.
China But the indigenous population of Europe, on the contrary, is rapidly decreasing, which is associated with the demographic aging of the population. This process leads to an increase in the proportion of older people compared to children and youth. This problem is familiar to most developed countries of the world. In addition to Europe, a similar process is observed in Australia, Canada, the USA and Japan. This situation is partly smoothed out by a stable number of labor migrants arriving in the developed countries of the world. Unfortunately, Russia is no exception, and in our country there is also a large number of elderly people compared to the working-age population.
In Japan, older people are very active At the initiative of American researchers, an information project called Worldometers was created, which collects demographic and some other parameters for different countries of the world. Of course, the data displayed here is often obtained by modeling and forecasting, but in any case it is very interesting. We offer you to see how fast the population of the Earth is growing in real time.
Everything would be fine, but this happens for the first time in the history of mankind. Compared with the 1960s, the birth rate has declined significantly. There are more people on the planet over the age of 65 than there are children under the age of five. The decline in fertility is especially noticeable in European countries. If this continues, Africa will become the most populated continent in the future. Islam will be the most popular religion in the world in 2050. But what happens if the world's population stops growing?
Regions with the highest birth rate are marked in red
How many people live on Earth today?
Throughout the history of our civilization, the population of the planet has grown very slowly. In 1800, the number of people on the planet was less than 1 billion people. In 1950, the Earth was home to 2.5 billion people, and today, as you know, we are almost 7.7 billion.
Mankind owes such a sharp rise in the birth rate to scientific progress. , sanitation, mass food production have done the unthinkable. However, this cannot go on forever. According to United Nations estimates, world population growth will stop around 2100. By then, the world population is projected to reach 11 billion.
Humanity has already experienced population decline. The plague epidemic alone claimed the lives of about 200 million people. However, this time it will be different. The reason for the upcoming demographic transition will be a decline in the birth rate. Access to food, rising incomes, and education for women have made a big difference.
How many people will there be in the world in 2100?
Despite the errors in the calculations of demographers, in the next 100 years the world's population will peak. Many experts point out that Africa will become the most densely populated region of the planet in the future. But it is especially important that the population of the Earth will age.
UN data show that over eight decades, from 2020 to 2100, the number of people aged 80 will increase from 146 million to 881 million; Around the same time, the median age will rise from 31 to 42.
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How will our culture change in the future?
Thus, according to scientists, in the future we will face a crisis in the pension system. Moreover, over time, the structure of family life will change dramatically. The number of people in the family will be getting smaller - children will have fewer brothers and sisters, and parents will invest more resources in each child.
Pictured is a large family in Uganda
In addition, many sociologists note that culture is moving towards reducing the number of people in the family and not vice versa. For example, in Africa, family ties are enhanced by living together with cousins and other relatives. In many cultures, people will prefer this kind of cohabitation to having a large number of children. In addition, those who do not have their own family or or people who have few relatives will strive to expand their social circle.
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And yet, scientists make such assumptions without taking into account the consequences of climate change. Meanwhile, in some Western countries there are civil movements declaring the refusal to have children because of global warming. Although the number of supporters of such a sharp refusal of childbearing is small today, it is possible that in the future this will affect the population.
What do you think about this?