The annual United Nations designation is not only a chance to recognize "the dreams of all 8 billion of us on our planet," as UN Secretary-General António Guterres put it in a blog post on Tuesday, it's also a chance to take stock at just how rapidly the world around us is shifting.

In just the past 12 months, the world's population topped 8 billion people for the first time and India overtook China as the most populous country in the world. But even as the global population hits new milestones, one of the buzziest discussions is around the "Great People Shortage," as writers here at Insider have termed it. According to projections, China, Japan, Germany, and even the US are facing the possibility of population decline by 2100 — which could come with some serious economic challenges.

In contrast to the countries facing down the possibility of an aging, shrinking populace, there are other parts of the world that are set to take the baton of population growth in the coming decades. Perhaps the most notable of these rapid-risers is Nigeria.

A country slightly bigger than Texas is projected to match the US's population by 2050 — and it shows how radically the world is going to change over the next three decades

According to new estimates, Nigeria is expected to nearly double its population in the next 27 years.
The rise is in contrast to a growing number of countries that will experience population declines.
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Does this have anything to do with the delayed census count

At least nigeria can be ahead in something, but the most important question will be wether it is better to be in a small country and have all the necessary basic THINGS of life or to be in a large country without the smallest basic needs of life as it is on nigeria already, as there is this chronic hunger lack and want in nigeria at this nbet of people, what will it be like when the population doubles, anyways, I sincerely believe that there will be nothing like nigeria by then

No government since 1999 has taken the issue of population control seriously.

Bangladeshi, a majority Muslim control has a population growth rate of 1.1% compared to Nigeria's 2.4%.

Bangladesh was also associated with chronic poverty but is slowly lifting itself out due to booming textile exports, second only China globally.

It is a problem because we are black. If it was a European nation, they’d be hailed as the most fertile people on the planet.