>>:FACT/1 Life Expectancy
>>:FACT/2 Population Growth
Most of the projected increase in global population through 2050 will be driven by the momentum of past growth.
This means that further actions by governments aimed at reducing fertility will do little to slow the pace of growth between now and 2050.
Based on current projections
With efforts to control fertility and decrease population
Population growth
>>:FACT/3 Emissions
Half of all emissions come from the richest 10 per cent of the world’s population: Conflating a rise in emissions with population growth is therefore mistaken.
In a YouGov survey of almost 8,000 people across eight countries (Brazil, Egypt, France, Hungary, India, Japan, Nigeria and the United States) the most commonly held view was that the current world population was too large.
Respondents in Brazil, Egypt, India and Nigeria felt their domestic fertility rates were too high, even though Brazil and India have fertility rates below 2.1 births per woman – or what experts call the ‘replacement-level’ fertility rate.
Of the eight countries included in the survey, five (Brazil, France, Hungary, Japan and the United States) had more respondents worried about the size of the global population than about the size of their own country’s population.