{"id":132132,"date":"2021-12-10T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/world-population-forecast-to-decline-for-the-first-time-in-centuries"},"modified":"2021-12-10T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T05:22:21","slug":"world-population-forecast-to-decline-for-the-first-time-in-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/world-population-forecast-to-decline-for-the-first-time-in-centuries","title":{"rendered":"World population forecast to decline for the first time in centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-population-forecast-to-decline-for-the-first-time-in-centuries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stein Emil Vollset, the study\u2019s lead author and Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), elaborated on the findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time that global population declined was in the mid 14th century, due to the Black Plague,\u201d he told <a data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" data-evt-val='{\"control_fields\": {\"mparticle\": {\"keys\": {\"click_source_type\": \"click_source_type\", \"anchor_text\": \"anchor_text\", \"target_url\": \"target_url\"}, \"MP_event_type\": \"Navigation\", \"extra_keys\": [\"click_vertical_position_percentage\", \"click_vertical_position_pixels\"]}}, \"click_source_type\": \"in-page link\", \"anchor_text\": \"IFLScience\", \"target_url\": \"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/health-and-medicine\/for-the-first-time-in-centuries-the-worlds-population-will-decline-in-next-few-decades\/\"}' href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/health-and-medicine\/for-the-first-time-in-centuries-the-worlds-population-will-decline-in-next-few-decades\/\">IFLScience<\/a>. \u201cIf our forecast is correct, it will be the first time population decline is driven by fertility decline, as opposed to events such as a pandemic or famine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some countries, however, are forecasted to see an increase in population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stein Emil Vollset, the study\u2019s lead author and Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), elaborated on the findings. \u201cThe last time that global population declined was in the mid 14th century, due to the Black Plague,\u201d he told IFLScience. \u201cIf our forecast is correct, it will be the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}