Blog Post #16
Video Notes
· We are doing better than most of us think we are doing
· Was growing slowly in the beginning
· Population was 1 billion in 1800
· After this it started to grow much faster and faster
· Most growth in the recent years has been from the Asian countries
· The recommended number of children for each person was only 2
· Bangladesh completely reduced their fertility rate
· In Bangladesh the life expectancy was only 50 years
· Now the life span is 70
· They completely reversed the way their country was going
· The average fertility rate in the world went from 5 to only 2.5
· The population is going to slow down
· We are excepting the stoppage of fast population growth and the end of this century
· People thought we could only have 8 billion people on the world
· 80% of the world would live in Africa and Asia
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