There Are Eight Billion People!

We just passed the Eight BILLION population milestone! How is it possible, and will the human population ever stop growing? Let's investigate! Please subscribe to continue learning what makes life AWESOME: BioBush.tv/subscribe
The United Nations announced that the world population surpassed eight billion on November 15, 2022! This "Day of Eight Billion" is the latest in a series of population milestones.
The world population exceeded 1 billion for the first time in 1804.
2 billion in 1927
3 billion in 1960
4 billion in 1974
5 billion in 1987
6 billion in 1999
7 billion in 2011
and now 8 billion in 2022.
Three factors which enabled this rise in population were 1) decline in child mortality, 2) extension of adult lifespans, and 3) a consistent growth in agricultural efficiency which has exceeded the rate if population growth.
From here it's predicted that the human population will stabilize at around 10.4 billion people (still an extra 2.4 billion to go!). From there, it may start to decline slightly.
It's an interesting time to consider how we might make space for other species as our population continues to grow.
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[@RamenLlama]

These bitesized videos are always interesting. Cheers for making them

[@maryrosekent8223]

That’s far too many people! I’m a Baby Boomer-those of us whose parents had been in either WWII or the Korean War, as was my father’s case. It was not uncommon for people to have large families at that time, as reliable birth control was not yet available. I am the eldest of five children (not considered a large family at the time), but the five of us created seven off-spring. I did not reproduce. The first brother born after me had one daughter, who has one or two children (she lives in Michigan and we’re not close, either Tim or Heather). My sister had three children, the eldest of which has had one child, her second son is schizophrenic and has not reproduced, and her youngest is severely developmentally disabled and won’t be reproducing. My second brother had two children, the second of which died before he was 10, and his daughter (whom I saw recently) told me she and her husband aren’t interested in having children…I don’t know how much, if any, that has to do with the death of her younger brother. My youngest brother has one son, and I have no idea what his situation is because he and brother #2 had a falling out, and since I wasn’t willing to cut ties with him, #3 stopped having contact with me. So that leaves six children still living, three of which won’t be having any children and the other three have either three or four among them. So, we have done and/or are doing our part as far as not over-reproducing goes.
I wish China had not reversed its one-child policy; I wish countries would tout small families as the ideal. I’m really glad I’ll be dead when it reaches the point of no return for our planet because of the rapaciousness of our species.

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Thank you for sharing your story. You have seen so much change over your lifetime. There was an article that just came out about how the US population growth is at historically low levels, with 24 states seeing a population decrease. Such a change in a few generations. For example, the lives lost in WWII were a tiny dip in an exponential population growth curve. The developed world is now leveling out/slowly declining, and most growth will happen elsewhere in the world, like sub-Saharan Africa. The world of 2100 is going to be SO different from today, and I'm hoping that we figure out how society can balance with nature in a sustainable pattern. There's something called Stein's Law, which is "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." I would rather we found a way for us and nature to go on forever. :) Thanks for watching!