{"id":4743,"date":"2004-11-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/08\/2004-11-08-world-population-to-level-off-at-nine-billion-in-2300\/"},"modified":"2004-11-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T12:00:00","slug":"2004-11-08-world-population-to-level-off-at-nine-billion-in-2300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/08\/2004-11-08-world-population-to-level-off-at-nine-billion-in-2300\/","title":{"rendered":"World Population To Level Off At Nine Billion In 2300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/11\/05\/un.world.population.ap\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>UNITED NATIONS, November 5, 2004: Three hundred years from now, the world&#8217;s population will have stabilized at about 9 billion and we will look forward to living until age 95. In Japan, that bastion of longevity, people will be hanging around until they&#8217;re 106. India, China and the United States will still be the most populous countries on the planet &#8212; if they still exist &#8212; and Africa&#8217;s share of the world&#8217;s population will double to 25 percent. The average woman will give birth to two children. Those are just a few possibilities projected in a U.N. report released Thursday, which lowers long-term population estimates because of new thinking about fertility rates in the future. The new report acknowledges that population projections are extremely iffy. &#8220;What will population trends to be like beyond 2050? No one really knows,&#8221; the report says. &#8220;Any demographic projections, if they go 100, 200 or 300 years into the future, are little more than guesses. &#8220;But the report says the exercise is necessary to help mankind reflect on short-term trends and whether actions should be taken to change them. It uses the metaphor of a basketball coach who calls a time-out just five minutes into a game going badly to avoid an unfavorable outcome.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceUNITED NATIONS, November 5, 2004: Three hundred years from now, the world&#8217;s population will have stabilized at about 9 billion,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}