In South Korea, for example, new parents are being offered cash payments of $10,500 in an attempt to fend off a looming demographic and economic disaster.
Low birth rates have prompted governments to roll out a wide range of financial incentives and support to new mothers. On the flip side, most of the world’s fastest-shrinking populations are located in Europe and East Asia. The map below highlights the population growth rate for countries around the world in 2022.Īfrica is the fastest-growing continent in the world, with countries including Niger, Uganda, DRC, Angola, Chad, Mali and Somalia each growing at a rate greater than 3 percent per year. The net result is a global population that grew by 0.8 percent. Approximately 67 million deaths were recorded in 2022, according to estimates. In 2020, 63 million deaths were recorded, followed by a record 69 million in 2021. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths sharply increased. The number of deaths worldwide has also been gradually increasing from less than 50 million before the 1990s to 58 million in 2019. While this may sound like a lot, it is actually the lowest number of newborns since 2001. That is an average of 367,000 newborns each day. In 2022, nearly 134 million babies were born around the world.
Conversely, if the opposite occurs, the population will decline.
If the number of births and immigration surpasses the number of deaths and emigration, the population of the country will grow. In simple terms, a country’s population can be determined by four factors: births, deaths, immigration (people entering the country), and emigration (people leaving the country). (Al Jazeera) Is your country’s population growing or shrinking? According to estimates by the United Nations Population Division, the world will reach some 9.7 billion people by 2050.īy 2050, after India and China, Nigeria is expected to become the world’s third most populous nation, followed by the United States, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Bangladesh, in that order. The animation below shows how the world’s population tripled from 2.5 billion people in 1950 to 8 billion in 2022. Today, that is the population of India and China alone. In 1955, there were 2.8 billion people on Earth. How the world’s population tripled in 70 years In the following infographic series, Al Jazeera breaks down the world’s population numbers and explains what declining populations mean for the rest of the world.
Earlier this year, South Korea once again smashed its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate, while other countries across Asia including Japan and China also recorded their lowest birth rates. While the world’s population continues to grow, the rate of its growth is actually slowing. Second, in April this year, India surpassed China to become the world’s most populous country, according to UN estimates. First, in November 2022, the global population officially hit eight billion people. Over the past 12 months, the world saw two significant population milestones. People across the globe observe July 11 as World Population Day – designated by the United Nations to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, including their relations to the environment and human development.
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