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Funny, I was just researching this very thing this morning. I don't think it's as bad as you may believe.

Here are a couple of quick links that contain all the data you may want on the current understanding of population growth.

This one is full of data and graphs. The population rate of growth is declining and shows an expected peak in 2100 of 10 Billion people.

https://ourworldindata.org/future-world-population-growth/

This one is more fun and shows the real time population and breaks it down into countries. It’s scary and fascinating to watch India’s population steadily ticking upward relative to pretty much every other country. So if the population eventually tapers, it will not be an even distribution (no surprise). Where will the people in India go, I wonder? If you scroll down to “World Population by Country” and look at the migrants rate, it appears net migration is out of India, higher than any other country, but not high enough to compensate for the growth.

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/



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