The increase in world population is the result of several factors. NA indicates an increase in life expectancy due to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine. Another reason is the persistence of high fertility rates in some countries.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, however, warned that billions of people were in trouble. Hundreds of millions of people are going hungry and a record number of people are fleeing their homes in search of help in the face of debt, hardship, wars and climatic disasters.
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Risk
“If we don’t close the yawning gap between global owners and non-owners, we a world of eight billion full of tension and distrust, crisis and conflict predicts Guterres.
The UN notes that countries with the highest levels of fertility tend to be those with the lowest per capita income. Consequently, global population growth is becoming increasingly visible over time in the world’s poorest countries, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
“While population growth amplifies the environmental impact of economic development, rising per capita income is a major driver of unsustainable production and consumption patterns. Countries where material resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions greenhouse effect per capita are highest are generally where per capita income is higher, not where the population is growing rapidly.
We’ll arrive a little slower
According to statistics, the overall growth rate of the world’s population is declining. Humanity had to wait 12 years to go from 7 to 8 billion. According to forecasts, it will reach 9 billion in 15 years, i.e. in 2037.
