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2025年全球人口将达到81亿
The United Nations forecast Thursday that the world's population will increase from billion today to billion in 2025, with most growth in developing countries and more than half in Africa. By 2050, it will reach billion.
联合国6月13日最新报告预计，世界人口到2025年将从72亿增长至81亿，到2050年世界人口将达96亿。
India's population is expected to surpass China's around 2028 when both countries will have populations of around billion, according to the report on "World Population Prospects." While India's population is forecast to grow to around billion and then slowly decline to billion in 2100, China's is expected to start decreasing after 2030, possibly falling to billion in 2100, it said.
The report found global fertility rates are falling rapidly, though not nearly fast enough to avoid a significant population jump over the next decades. In fact, the . revised its population projection upward since its last report two years ago, mostly due to higher fertility projections in the countries with the most children per women. The previous projection had the global population reaching billion people in 2050.
John Wilmoth, director of the Population Division in the .'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said the projected population increase will pose challenges but is not necessarily cause for alarm. Rather, he said, the worr