At a time when most of us are mainly concerned with the beginning of the summer holidays, the world is celebrating an important holiday. Back in the 1990s, World Population Day was established on 11 July. Its celebration is intended to raise awareness of the earth's population, but more importantly to draw attention to the problems associated with it.
On the occasion of the day that counts human life on the globe, it is impossible not to mention a few figures. Don't worry, these are really interesting! For example, did you know that:
- in the last 100 years, the Earth's population has quadrupled
- between 1975 and 2011 alone, the number of people on Earth increased by 3 billion
- the world's population is growing by 200,000 people every day
- by around 2037, the population is expected to pass the 9 billion mark
The number of people on Earth continues to increase, and the increase has accelerated significantly, especially in the 20th century. The number of people on the planet will exceed 8 billion in 2023 and is rising by the second. This fact can easily be linked to the quality and availability of healthcare and our increasing standard of living. Not only are more and more people living to working age, but our life expectancy is steadily increasing.
And yet there are some experts and scientists who warn of a possible crisis with population decline and depopulation. Do you find this confusing?
It turns out that up to two-thirds of the world's population now lives in countries or areas with lower birth rates.
In the early 1970s, world statistics calculated that each woman had an average of 4.5 children. By contrast, in 2015, total fertility in the world had fallen to less than 2.5 children for every woman.
If we look more closely at the European Union, the population here has been in steady decline since 2020.
The population on the old continent is ageing and fewer and fewer children are being born. The reality is that in most European countries, women are having fewer than 2 children on average. One of the reasons for this is the age of first births, which in some countries has surpassed 30. Fertility rates for both women and men have been shown to decline with age, and many couples have been trying to conceive for a long time without success. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 18% of the adult population (approximately one in six people) experience some form of infertility.
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