The world’s population is on track to rise to 11.2 billion people by 2100, up from 7.3 billion this year, the United Nations announced Monday. Even by 2050, the U.N. expects 9.7 billion people to inhabit the planet.
John R. Wilmoth, director of the United Nations Population Division, presented the
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