The United Nations released the “World Population Prospects 2022: Summary of Results” (WPP) on July 11 (pdf), which is World Population Day.
The report says: “India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country during 2023,” and “The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on Nov. 15, 2022.”
Countries of sub-Saharan Africa are expected to continue growing through 2100 and to contribute more than half of the global population increase anticipated through 2050.
In 2021, 13.3 million babies, or about 10 percent of the total worldwide, were born to mothers under 20 years old, said the report.
Because of the female advantage in life expectancy, women outnumber men at older ages in almost all populations. Globally, women comprised 55.7 percent of persons aged 65 or older in 2022, said the report….