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Now the issue is both OP and you are taking one of the trend lines rather than looking at the projection spread. Ops seems slightly off as the UN numbers are showing 10B max and 7.4B min.
Estimates for 2100 (from Fig. 6)
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- High: 14.0B
- Med: 9.1B
- Low: 5.5B
https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...
Now the issue is both OP and you are taking one of the trend lines rather than looking at the projection spread. Ops seems slightly off as the UN numbers are showing 10B max and 7.4B min.