You are correct for the western world. Family sizes in most of Africa are stable and not significantly decreasing. As to longevity there are certain segments of the western world that are plateauing and even falling.Wilson wrote:As I wrote earlier, since women are having fewer children, most of the world population increase for the next 50 years will be due to the significant rise in worldwide longevity. But barring some breakthrough that we can't even imagine, that longevity increase will slow to a crawl. As far as we know, there is a built-in maximum age for our species.LuckyR wrote: Life expectancy differences for folks who are done having kids will not change world population much. Another vote for universal female education.
Is it ethical to cure disease?
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Look at the graph halfway down the page of this link, which shows the dramatic decrease in Asia, and even a modest decrease in Africa: newsecuritybeat.org/2015/05/whats-west- ... mily-size/
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