Global trends in population growth

The world’s population more than tripled in size between 1950 and 2020. Over the coming decades, it is expected to continue growing due to further gains in average life span, continuing high levels of fertility in some countries and a youthful global age distribution. The pace of world population growth has slowed considerably over the past 50 years and is expected to continue to decelerate. Much of the growth anticipated over the next few decades will be driven by the relative youthfulness of the current population age distribution and is therefore very likely to occur. By the end of the twenty-first century, the global population is projected to reach almost 11 billion people. Although such forecasts are inherently uncertain, a substantially faster reduction in global growth is unlikely.

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