UN Projects Global Population To Hit 8B In November

The New York Daily News reports:

The United Nations said Monday it expected the world’s population to hit the 8 billion mark on Nov. 15.

The organization’s report, released on World Population Day, also said that while population is growing slower than anytime since 1950, partially due to falling fertility rates, India is set to become the most-populous country in the world sometime next year.

The UN projects the population to hit 9.7 billion sometime in 2050 and peak at 10.4 billion in the 2080s before slowing again until the 2100s.

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