Population Growth. Is it out of control?

Population growth tends to invoke quite an emotional response in many people. Some say it's the root of all the problems we will face in the future and that it is rapidly spiralling out of control. But a new report suggests the numbers might not be quite as bad as we previously thought.

Here's a link to 'Don't Panic' by the late great Hans Rosling, who inspired the generations model in today's video
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RIP Hans.

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References
The Lancet
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30677-2/fulltext

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp6avcskCcg&t=25s

IHME
http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/lancet-world-population-likely-shrink-after-mid-century-forecasting-major-shifts-global

Visual Capitalist Infographic
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/over-a-century-of-global-fertility/

Worldometer
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

United Nations
https://population.un.org/wpp/Maps/

https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Line/900



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