Monday 15th June

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*The United Nations (UN) recently released population projections based on data until 2012 and a Bayesian probabilistic methodology. Analysis of this data reveals that, contrary to previous literature, the world population is unlikely to stop growing this century. There is an 80% probability that the world population, now 7.2 billion people, will increase to between 9.6 billion and 12.3 billion in 2100. This uncertainty is much smaller than the range from the traditional UN high and low variants. Much of the increase is expected to happen in Africa, in part due to higher fertility rates and a recent slowdown in the pace of fertility decline. Also the ratio of working-age people to older people is likely to decline substantially in all countries, even those that currently have young populations.