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Originally Posted by James Gablan
Much of the global population problem has already been solved. Globally births peaked in the late 1980's. Globally the fertility rate is now just a little over the replacement rate and is still falling.
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That is only true in European countries.
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The population continues to grow because the people in their prime dying years (the elderly) did most of their dying in the early 20th century when they were young. The baby boomers and subsequent generations delayed their prime dying years until they were actually elderly.
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Not sure if serious....
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This trend however, cannot go on forever because at the end of the day we are all mortal. Over the next couple of decades the number of people dying every year is going to increase dramatically putting the breaks on population growth. it seems likely that population growth will come to a stop sometime around the 2060's.
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The population will continue to increase dramatically, since the vast majority of the increase is by developing nations in Africa, Middle East, India, South America, etc. What you speak of, can only be applied to a few countries in Europe and the Far East. In North America, the population will likely continue due to immigration rates.