According to the UN medium variant forecast, global population under 25 has already peaked (or about to peak). 75% of the population growth between now and 2100 (+2 billion) will be among those older than 65 (+1.5 billion)
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According to the UN medium variant forecast, global population under 25 has already peaked (or about to peak). 75% of the population growth between now and 2100 (+2 billion) will be among those older than 65 (+1.5 billion)
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source: [https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/09/5-facts-about-how-the-worlds-population-is-expected-to-change-by-2100/](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/09/5-facts-about-how-the-worlds-population-is-expected-to-change-by-2100/)
the age composition of the additional population rarely, if ever ,gets talked about
when people think of population growth, they think of more kids and people of working age
**but in practice, the global population under 65 is poised to grow from 7.3 billion now to 7.8 billion by 2100, a growth rate of just 6.9% over 75 years**
and that’s assuming that UN population forecast doesn’t get revised down in the future due to faster than expected birth rate declines, which it already did
**UN shaved off its forecast for 2100 by nearly 1 billion people in the past decade, due to faster declining birth rates**
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