The human species has topped 8 billion, with longer lifespans offsetting fewer births, but world population growth continues a long-term trend of slowing down, the US Census Bureau said Thursday.
The bureau estimates that the global population exceeded the threshold on 26 September, though the agency said to take this precise date with a grain of salt.
The United Nations estimated the number was passed 10 months earlier, having declared 22 November 2022, the “Day of 8 Billion”, the Census Bureau pointed out in a statement.
The discrepancy is due to countries counting people differently — or not at all. Many lack systems to record births and deaths. Some of the most populous countries, such as India and Nigeria, haven’t conducted censuses in over a decade, according to the bureau.
While world population growth remains brisk, growing from 6 billion to 8 billion since the turn of the millennium, the rate has slowed since doubling between 1960 and 2000.
Always good to remind people overpopulation is not a problem when I see news like this.
Our consumption habits are much more detrimental to earth than how many of us there are (most of us live in poverty). As countries develop, the UN estimates the 12th billion human will never be born.
Poor 12th billion mother-to-be. She’ll push and push but the baby just won’t come out 😔
I still think that less humans is better. Restrictive birth should be more common.
The problem with this approach is evident in China right now, where they will experience a pure demographic catastrophe where the share of people in working age will go down significantly, meaning their economy will start contracting and people won’t be happy because this will directly affect their lifestyle.
where the share of people in working age will go down significantly
That’s happening in most developed nations, btw.
What if you think humans are the problem?
Then you didn’t watch the video, and you’d be hard pressed to suggest a “human” oriented solution that would improve things permanently.
That’s fair, but my objection to having kids is more due to the current capitalist structure than carrying capacity of the planet.
I don’t want to spend my own resources rearing another slave for billionaires.
Where in this video does it state that overpopulation is not a problem? The message the video is conveying, as I’ve interpreted it, is that the bleak, distopian vision of an overpopulated planet is not likely based on historical trends: as we develop as a society, the overall standard of living has improved, fertility rates reduce to a stable or even shrinking population, etc., etc.
The video does not address the current state of our overpopulated planet, and the impact humans continue to have on animal populations, biomes or climate change. None of these things are likely to be easily reversed within even a few generations, and with the current trend, will likely only continue to get worse in our lifetimes.
In my opinion, overpopulation is a problem today, and while it may reduce social inequalities for humans, reproductive rates cannot drop quickly enough to make a dent in the lasting impact our species is having on issues affecting the planet as a whole.
It is. Reduce the population to under 1b and consumption is not an issue anymore.
or OR, manage and distribute resources properly and don’t let a very few of the 8b hoard them
How’s that relevant?
My man here is calling for mass slaughter of the human race.
Nice! We did it, Reddit! Okay maybe not much contribution from Redditors but still!
I think you’re on the wrong platform dude…
I was being ironic cmon keep up
If reddit had a billion users and all of them actively tried to reproduce we’d end up with a billion and one reddit users.
I remember when it was six billion. Whole lotta fuckin going on. I did my part to slow down the train; I’m childless. Elon thinks I shouldn’t get to vote.
I didn’t know that about Elon but it doesn’t surprise me. That man sure has some silly notions.
That’s a lot of hairless apes running around
