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The Skeptics Guide #906 - Nov 19 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is the World's Population Increasing?

More than half of the world's population right now is in seven countries. If we were to kind of project out into the future by 2100, the thought is that half the World's population will be concentrated in ten countries. Still India, still China, still Nigeria, still Pakistan, still US, but now it's still Indonesia,. But now we're adding DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Egypt. So these are places where those rates are climbing. Or I should say reducing less quickly, if not climbing.

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