Peak Children ?
Posted by Big Gav in peak children, population
Gapminder thinks the recent enlarged future population predictions overshadowed the likely fact that we have reached the peak number of children being born each year - The World has reached Peak Number of Children!.
world population continueS to grow, but the number of children in the world has now reached its peak.
In 1960 we were 1 billion children below 15 years of age and we were 35% of the world population.
Now there are 1,9 billion children in the world, but they are but 27% of world population.
In 2050 there will still be an estimated 1.9 billion kids, but they will be only 20% of world population.
The reason, 40% of world population has less than 2 children per women and thus compensationg for the 18% that get more than 3 children per women.
http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/p2k0data.asp
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