World Population to Decline from Increase in 2084

A United Nations report issued today, Thursday, revealed that the world’s population reached 8.2 billion people in the middle of this year, and is expected to reach 10.3 billion in the mid-1980s.

The official website of the United Nations stated that the population will decline after that to reach about 10.2 billion, which is 700 million less than what was expected a decade ago, indicating that this is just one of the main results revealed in the World Population Prospects report. 2024, which was published by the United Nations on Thursday.

However, changes in the world's population are uneven and the demographic landscape is evolving, with rapid population growth in some places and rapid aging in others, making reliable population data “more important than ever,” the UN Fund said. For Sexual and Reproductive Health (United Nations Population Fund) in reference to the report issued coinciding with World Population Day.

Projections indicate that total fertility rates in the world are declining, with the rate of women giving birth to one child being lower on average than it was in 1990. In more than half of the countries and regions, the average number of live births per woman is less than 2.1 - the level required for The population maintains a constant size.

It is worth noting that in 2024, 4.7 million children, or about 3.5% of the total children around the world, were born to mothers under the age of 18, and among these, about 340,000 children were born under the age of 15, with the consequences of this. It has serious consequences for the health and well-being of young mothers and their children.