Stumbled across this today. I know it can be folly to predict something 80 years out, but the long term trend lines point to the world population falling by 2100.
Japan 128M falling to 53M
China 1.4B falling to 732M
Spain 43M falling to 22M
US 328M going up to 364M (2062) then falling to 286M
“Falling fertility rates are mostly associated with increasing education and work availability to women and access to contraception. In other words, over the course of the last half-century women able to and choosing to have fewer children.”
