20 Most Populous Countries in 2050
Most Populous Countries in 2050
The 20 Most Populous Countries in 2050
By Matt Rosenberg, About.com Guide
Updated May 12, 2011
In May 2011, the United Nations Population Division released their World Population Prospects, a set of population projections out to the year 2100 for the planet earth and for individual countries.
The United Nations expects the global population to reach 9 billion in the year 2043. The next set of population projections will be issued by the United Nations in 2013.
What follows is a listing of the twenty most populous countries in the year 2050, presuming no significant boundary changes between now and then.
1. India - 1,692,008,000
2. China - 1,295,604,000
3. United States - 403,101,000
4. Nigeria - 389,615,000
5. Indonesia - 293,456,000
6. Pakistan - 274,875,000
7. Brazil - 222,843,000
8. Bangladesh - 194,353,000
9. Philippines - 154,939,000
10. Democratic Republic of the Congo - 148,523,000
11. Ethiopia - 145,187,000
12. Mexico - 143,925,000
13. Tanzania - 138,312,000
14. Russia - 126,188,000
15. Egypt - 123,452,000
16. Japan - 108,549,000
17. Vietnam - 103,962,000
18. Kenya - 96,887,000
19. Uganda - 94,259,000
20. Turkey - 91,617,000
A lot of opportunity.....................................................a shytload of challenges..........
Places like the Phillipines on islands........or Bangladesh sitting on a delta...............................I have to seriiously ask how do you accomodate that many people (without destroying the natural environment/farmland), besides skyscrapers literally scraping the sky in modern buildings, or unbelievable putrid poverty that would seem like Disneyland even by today's worst ghettos/favelas/etc.....but in general too......with robotics and computers eliminating more and more jobs........what will be the socio-econ-political paradigm......????? or do things stay the same.......???
Vertical farms are part of the answer, but not the only thing...
Let me add, folks like Holdren and others know these projected numbers......................yall think that Georgia Guidestone randomly showing up in Stone Mountain, GA with that cryptic depopulated scripture, and then the city government making a park around it
....... was just an unrelated event....
........................
Imagine you going to your local park, with a tractor trailer and a big ass boulder in it, and you spray paint our town needs to be reduced by over 80% and then the city government going
, lets build a park around this boulder......
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yall.....