on october 02, 2013 at 3:01 pm in news
PARIS (AFP) – The world’s population will rise to 9.7
billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion
and India will overtake China as the world’s most
populous nation, as Nigeria’s population will
outstrip that of the United State a French study
said Wednesday.
A bi-annual report by the French Institute of
Demographic Studies (Ined) projected there would
be 10 to 11 billion people on the planet by the end
of the century.
The projections ran parallel to forecasts by the
United Nations, the World Bank and other prominent
national institutes.
A UN study in June said the global population would
swell to 9.6 billion in 2050 and the number of
people aged 60 and above would catapult from 841
million now to two billion in 2050 and nearly three
billion in 2100.
Ined said Africa would be home to a quarter of the
world’s population in 2050 with 2.5 billion people,
more than double the current level of 1.1 billion.
Gilles Pison, the author of the report, said the
prevailing fertility rate in Africa was around 4.8
children per woman — far higher than the global
average of 2.5.
The Americas will breach the one-billion mark in
2050 with 1.2 billion inhabitants against 958 million
at present.
And Asia’s population will increase from 4.3 billion
to 5.2 billion in 2050, Ined forecast.
The world’s most populous nations are currently
China with 1.3 billion people; followed by India (1.2
billion); the United States (316.2 million); Indonesia
(248.5 million) and Brazil (195.5 million).
But in 2050, India will take pole position with 1.6
billion people with China in second place at 1.3
billion.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, will outstrip
the United States with a population of 444 million
against a projected 400 million Americans in the
middle of the century

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2050 is a very long time from now hence I would have faulted their projections.From 170-444 million.that's large.presumably they made their assessment based on the global power level of Nigeria developing as one of the World powers.

Which sums up to,we would by that time have favourable conditions that would reduce death except by natural occurence and enhance reproduction.Pray we are alive to see it.