{"id":87452,"date":"2019-02-06T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-projection-world-population-will-level-off-then-fall-forever"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:02:46","slug":"new-projection-world-population-will-level-off-then-fall-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-projection-world-population-will-level-off-then-fall-forever","title":{"rendered":"New Projection: World Population Will Level off, Then Fall Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-projection-world-population-will-level-off-then-fall-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New data predicts an \u201cempty planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But a new book examines the data and comes to a radically different conclusion: instead of continuing to rise, the population will level out in about 30 years \u2014 and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-world-might-actually-run-out-of-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">start to decline<\/a>, possibly forever.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stand on Zanzibar<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The book is called \u201cEmpty Planet,\u201d and it was written by journalist John Ibbitson and political scientist Darrell Bricker. Their key argument: access to information is changing people\u2019s outlook on reproduction around the world and rapidly shifting the old norms around families and fertility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe polled 26 countries asking women how many kids they want, and no matter where you go the answer tends to be around two,\u201d Ibbitson said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-world-might-actually-run-out-of-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new interview<\/a> with <em>Wired<\/em>. \u201cThe external forces that used to dictate people having bigger families are disappearing everywhere. And that\u2019s happening fastest in developing countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/world-population-will-fall-never-stop\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/world-population-will-fall-never-stop<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data predicts an \u201cempty planet.\u201d But a new book examines the data and comes to a radically different conclusion: instead of continuing to rise, the population will level out in about 30 years \u2014 and then start to decline, possibly forever. Stand on Zanzibar The book is called \u201cEmpty Planet,\u201d and it was written [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87452","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}