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Fertility 🤱

The world of 2050 will look vastly different from today—to say nothing of the year 2100. In fact, the United Nations predicts that the global population will peak in the mid-2080s at roughly 10.3B people, before beginning to drop in the years afterwards.

And by then different world regions will have vastly different fates. For example, countries like China, Japan, and South Korea have already seen early peaks and will see big declines in national populations in the years to come, similarly to much of Europe.

Meanwhile, there’s Africa, which by 2100 is projected to hold the three most populous metropolitan areas worldwide: Lagos, Kinshasa, and Dar es Salaam.

LatAm's births per year peaked in 1986

But Latin America is in a weird place today. Despite still being a region of mostly developing economies, we’ve already seen a fairly big drop-off in population growth.

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