The United Nations (UN) in its recent projection pegged the world population at eight (8) billion on Tuesday, November 2022.
This of course isn’t a cheering news for the organisation as it continues to advocate for better living condition for citizens of the world as developed countries will continue to face challenges.
While Africa and Asia contribute the most to the growth they are faced with challenges ranging from hunger and even famine.
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said, “The world’s population will reach 8 billion in the middle of November – a testament to scientific breakthroughs and improvements in nutrition, public health, and sanitation. But as our human family grows larger, it is also growing more divided.”
Also, governments are faced with difficulties seeking opportunities and relief from debt and hardship, wars, and climate disasters.
These can be mitigated if countries have a common conversation on how to be resilient.
He said, “Unless we bridge the yawning chasm between the global haves and have-nots, we are setting ourselves up for an 8-billion-strong world filled with tensions and mistrust, crisis and conflict.”
“The facts speak for themselves. A handful of billionaires control as much wealth as the poorest half of the world.
“The top one percent globally pocket one-fifth of the world’s income, while people in the richest countries can expect to live up to 30 years longer than those in the poorest. As the world has grown richer and healthier in recent decades, these inequalities have grown too.“
According to the most recent UN estimates, the world’s population could reach 8.5 billion people in 2030 and 9.7 billion by 2050.
However, even though the world population is at record highs, demographers observe that the rate of growth has steadily decreased to less than 1% annually. As a result, nine billion people should not inhabit the planet until 2037.
In a world where food insecurity is already a problem, more economic hardship is likely to result if the population growth rate is not kept up by improvements in the global growth rate aided by technology.
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