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Re:For the first time there's more people worldwide aged 65+... by jerkstate on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:39PM (#19809755)
I agree but according to the article the overall population will continue to grow until 2070.
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Re:For the first time there's more people worldwide aged 65+... by beat on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:30PM (#19811724)
The population growth isn't coming from new births, which have leveled off. Rather, it's coming from people living longer. This is true in every nation that manages to crawl out of utter poverty - within a generation or two, birth rate drops to at or below replacement.

Yes, this seems counter to everything we're told about the population explosion. It's not the 1960s anymore, but our education hasn't caught up to that yet. Hans Rosling writes about this extensively in Factfulness.

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