Tag: World Population
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Just in: Nigerian men outnumber women as world population hits 7.7bn
The population of the world hits an estimated 7,713,468,000, the United Nations Population Division said on Monday. According to the World Population Prospect released by the UN on Monday, the medium-variant projection indicates that the global population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and 10.9 billion in 2100. The…
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Nigeria, India, 7 other countries to account for half of world population growth by 2050 – UN
The UN says nine countries will account for half of the world’s population growth from 7.6 billion in 2017 to 9.8 billion in 2050. The UN in a projection, named India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the United States, Uganda and Indonesia, the report from the UN’s Department of Economic and…