Visualizing The World's Population At 8 Billion

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Visualizing The World's Population At 8 Billion

At some point in late 2022, the eight billionth human being will enter the world, ushering in a new milestone for humanity.

In just 48 years, the world population has doubled in size, jumping from four to eight billion.

Of course, as Visual Capitalist's Nick Routley and Avery Koop detail below, humans are not equally spread throughout the planet, and countries take all shapes and sizes. The visualizations in this article aim to build context on how the eight billion people are distributed around the world.

Now, here’s a look at each country’s population as of September 2022:



Below are regional breakdowns of population.
Africa’s Population by Country

As of 2022, Africa’s total population stands at 1.4 billion people. Many of the countries with the fastest growth rates are located in Africa and by 2050, the population of the continent is expected to jump to 2.5 billion.

More info-charts at the link above.

Current world population: 7.978 Billion. Expected to hit 8 billion this November.

According to a recent...UN report on World Population Prospects 2022: Summary of Results (54 page PDF)

More than half of the projected increase in global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania. Disparate growth rates among the world’s largest countries will re-order their ranking by size.

Europe and Northern America is projected to reach its peak population size and to begin experiencing population decline in the late 2030s due to sustained low levels of fertility, which has been below 2 births per woman since the mid-1970s and, in some countries, high emigration rates.

Europe and Northern America had the oldest population in 2022, with almost 19 per cent aged 65 or over, followed by Australia and New Zealand (16.6 per cent). Both regions are continuing to age further. Projections indicate that by 2050 one in every four persons in Europe and Northern America could be aged 65 years or over.

Percentage of population aged 65 years or over for the world, SDG regions, and selected groups of countries, 2022, 2030 and 2050, according to the medium scenario:

Nigeria population is expected to surpass the USA by 2050. Poverty capital of the world Or Africa's super power by 2050?

What is the global importance of Nigeria?

According to the World Bank Nigeria had the 31st largest GDP in 2018. It is the world’s 21st largest economy and has experienced recent rapid growth. According to the United Nations, it has the 7th largest population in the world. Nigeria is the 13th largest producer of oil according to the US Energy Information Administration.

Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, is a thriving ‘world city’, with a strong financial and economic base.

Nigeria has the second-largest film industry in the world, ahead of the United States and behind India. Nigerian cinema is known as “Nollywood”.

Nigeria has one of the largest river systems in the world, including the Niger Delta, the third largest delta on Earth.

How One Company Destroyed An Entire Country:

[727Sky]

China supposedly will have a population of around 800 million in the next 30 years. The one child policy of the past and the reluctance of women to have kids is killing them.

Most of Africa is Muslim but...the place is not very good for growing things and feeding their existing populations. Nigeria is a power house and will probably continue to outshine its' neighbors . Famine and pestilence may have a bigger effect on Africa than some have come to think.

I could go on but many of the educated countries have stopped growing in populations and are in fact shrinking.

The major totalitarian societies such as China will change or fall as they always have done throughout history IMO it just takes longer than most of us want to wait for.

[SimeonJ]

depopulation will be done in different ways in different countries. Transgenders in USA, cold in most of the Europe, war in Eastern Europe, famine in Africa.

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[Snarl]

Going with the flow ...

I saw what appeared to me as very credible analysis that the Earth's human population was very unlikely to peak 9B. And, that it would likely drop below 6B over the next 30 years.

Not hard to believe considering there will be at least 8B deaths in the next hundred years.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

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That was an excellent discussion, enlightening & very thought provoking! Very interesting on birth rates in Israel and their overall societal mentality towards its demographic future.



Nicholas Eberstadt:

The one thing that I would caution about is that we have 40 years of poison distributed through our societies through an increasingly maligned university system. And we have seen a Gramscian march through the institutions of severely problematic points of view, in the old days, would've been unmockingly called unAmerican, or anti-American. We have that poison to drain from our society before we can, I think really flourish again. But that's certainly not impossible either. It looks hard right now, but if you recall, 1979, what 1979 looked like, very few people would've bet at that moment where we'd end up at on Christmas day in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR.

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[MisterSpock]

Visualizing idiocracy.

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Nicholas Eberstadt:

The one thing that I would caution about is that we have 40 years of poison distributed through our societies through an increasingly maligned university system. And we have seen a Gramscian march through the institutions of severely problematic points of view, in the old days, would've been unmockingly called unAmerican, or anti-American. We have that poison to drain from our society before we can, I think really flourish again. 

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My opinion: We haven't had a great President at the helm since T Roosevelt. JFK was probably going to eclipse TR, but he was assassinated and (therefore) doesn't count. Scandal may well have been his undoing.  We'll never know.

All I can say is "40 years of poison" may be an understatement, knowing full well the poison was injected on TR's watch on a place called Jekyll Island by a group of Robber Barons who could no longer be reigned-in by government. Did it go unnoticed back then?