World population is predicted to peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s

• The world’s population surpassed 7 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s.
• By 2080, people aged 65 and over are expected to outnumber children under 18. The world’s population is expected to grow to an estimated 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s.
• By the mid-2030s, there will be 265 million people aged 80 or over, outnumbering babies under one year old.

According to a new United Nations report, the world’s population is expected to grow to an estimated 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s.

This is an increase from the current world population of 8.2 billion.

The UN report identified the following demographic trends:

• The estimated size of the world’s population at the end of this century (2100) is expected to be 6% smaller than estimated ten years ago.
• Across the world, one in four people live in a country whose population has already peaked.
• In 63 countries, the population size will peak by 2024. These countries include China, Germany, Japan and the Russian Federation.

World population is growing dramatically

The United Nations Population Fund announced that the world’s population surpassed 7 billion in 2011. Historically, it took hundreds of thousands of years to reach one billion, after which the population increased seven-fold in about two centuries, the UN said.

The recent dramatic increase is mainly due to more people surviving to reproductive age, increasing urbanization, and large-scale migration.