By The Financial District
Mar 30, 20231 min
The global population will peak at 8.6 billion in 2050 and decline to 7 billion by 2100 if current trends continue.
Photo Insert: The Earth4All model was created to explore which policies will deliver the best for the majority of people.
That is the projection of a model developed by the Club of Rome and it is 2 billion to 3 billion less in 2100 than other recent forecasts, New Scientist reported.
This Earth4All model, created to explore which policies will deliver the best for the majority of people, also suggests that if the world invested in a “Giant Leap” to reduce poverty and inequality, the world population would peak at around 8.5 billion people in 2040 and decline to 6 billion people by the end of the century.
A big fall in the world’s population will help alleviate environmental problems but by itself won’t prevent us from overshooting tipping points and planetary boundaries, says team member David Collste at Stockholm University in Sweden, New Scientist added.