The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday.
Children at a community clinic in the village of Kanaja in Malawi on Sept. 7, 2009.
The current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach 10.1 billion in the next ninety years, reaching 9.3 billion by the middle of this century, according to the medium variant of the 2010 Revision of World Population Prospects, says this UN press release.
An additional 3 billion Asians could enjoy higher living standards, and the region could account for over half of global output by the middle of this century, says a ADB commissioned report.
The much-awaited provisional results of Census 2011 bring the news that the child sex ratio (0-6 years) has declined further from 927 to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys, due to a widening of the circle of daughter aversion, especially across western and central India.
The pace at which India’s population is growing is slowing, but not as rapidly as expected; India will become the largest country in the world sooner than earlier forecast. Literacy rates have increased sharply between 2001 and 2011; some of the low performing rates have shown strong improvements, the others have not.
The population of India has increased by more than 181 million during the decade 2001-2011 according to Census 2011, the 15th Census of India since 1872. It also states that 2001-2011 is the first decade (with the exception of 1911-1921) which has actually added lesser population compared to the previous decade.
While neighbouring Karnataka is rejoicing, Andhra Pradesh got a bad report card with the census revealing that there has been a decline in tiger population in north Andhra Pradesh. Other than AP, Madhya Pradesh too has shown a decline in the big cat population.
