Overpopulation

There's only a population of something like 4 million in Ireland. It's so lonely.

I don't think that overpopulation will a problem in the long term :

First, most (if it's not all) of the Western countries will soon have their population declining.
Second, China (1.3 Billion inhabitants) has the same fertility as France, ie its population growth is under control and does not represent any problem.
So only India (pop. : 1 Billion, fertility: 2.98 in 2003) stands. Its true that with a density equal to 345 inhabitants per square kilometer, it is a problem; But according to the UN statistics and estimates, its fertility will progressively fall under 2.00 around year 2020. Plus India will be able to provide workers for Western countries, which will have an larger proportion of pensioners.

This is my first thought...

Now let's see some figures !!!! *crazy*

yeah! GP, make a chart please 😊

According to the UN the World population in 2050 will be 8.9 Billion !!!!

Originally posted by crazy_c
There's only a population of something like 4 million in Ireland. It's so lonely.

*points at GP and the graphics* 😊

just like in the old days, mister chart-man 😄

Yerss => Hehe

Things we knew : In Europe the pop will drop.
In China it will start decreasing after 2030
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China
Population (thousands)
Medium variant
2000-2050

Year Population
2000 : 1 275 215
2005 : 1 322 273
2010 : 1 364 875
2015 : 1 402 321
2020 : 1 429 473
2025 : 1 445 100
2030 : 1 450 521
2035 : 1 448 112
2040 : 1 438 933
2045 : 1 421 133
2050 : 1 395 182

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Europe
Population (thousands)
Medium variant
2000-2050

Year Population
2000 : 727 986
2005 : 724 722
2010 : 719 714
2015 : 713 402
2020 : 705 410
2025 : 696 036
2030 : 685 440
2035 : 673 638
2040 : 660 645
2045 : 646 630
2050 : 631 938

we'll be chinesed 😱

hmmm... chinese 😖hifty:

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You are right Kalanae, I am going to tackle this.

Ok if we analyse the figures we have, we can conclude that the later we will be the weaker the growth of the World population will be (see my nice little graph :

*doesn't follow the explanation, just happy staring at the graphs*

It just means that if this trend remains, the World population may be declining after, erm... 2070, so overpopulation won't last forever

I know, I'm not that stupid yet GP 😛

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nevermind, carry on

😱 Pretty graphs

Yerss, you nasty little boy !

larger growths (read and fear) :

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Originally posted by Kaleanae
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