The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day

Summary

The world population will reach 8.09 billion on New Year’s Day 2025, growing by 71 million people (0.9%) in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

This marks a slight slowdown from 2023’s 75 million increase. Globally, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths are expected every second in January 2025.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    3 days ago

    It would be hard to sustain this level of growth even if there wasn’t a tiny amount of individuals hoarding resources.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        3 days ago

        I mean…

        According to this theory, poverty and inequality will increase as the price of assets and scarce commodities goes up due to fierce competition for these dwindling resources. This increased level of poverty eventually causes depopulation by decreasing birth rates. If asset prices keep increasing, social unrest would occur, which would likely cause a major war, revolution, or a famine. Societal collapse is an extreme but possible outcome from this process. The theory posits that such a catastrophe would force the population to “correct” back to a lower, more easily sustainable level (quite rapidly, due to the potential severity and unpredictable results of the mitigating factors involved, as compared to the relatively slow time scales and well-understood processes governing unchecked growth or growth affected by preventive checks).

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism

        But it’s important to make the distinction between preventative and positive population control.

        One is stuff like birth control, the other would be the stuff that should be banned

        Lemmy.world did add that “harm no living thing” thing a while ago, but I don’t think they’re banning people for encouraging the use of condoms…

    • SparrowHawk@feddit.itEnglish
      39·
      3 days ago

      That’s is factually false, check your sources.

      There is no such things as infinite growth, the idiots in power drool so much for it in economics that they project it all their propaganda. Human population growth will not go on forever, as people will make less and less babies the more living condition better. And if they don’t, we will die enough to stabilize

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        3 days ago

        It would be hard to sustain this level of growth

        If that’s false, then it’s easy.

        And on a long enough timeline, it would stop being easy.

        I don’t think you understand the comment you replied to.

        • SparrowHawk@feddit.itEnglish
          14·
          3 days ago

          Are your implying infinite growth of Human population? Are you implying we don’t have enough resources for the 9 to 10 billion people peak estimated by 2100? Because it’s not gonna grow larger than that, the data is skewed because countries that formerly had a lot of infant deaths used to compensate with higher birth rates, but with living conditions rising babies don’t die as often but it takes one or two generations before people catch on to that and stop making babies like crazy.

          I don’t think you understand that overpopulation theory is bogus pseudoscience

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            3 days ago

            When I replied it was just the first line.

            Then you added another paragraph, talking about something no one else has talked about…

            But it seems like you heard someone talk about “infinite growth” in terms of profits and think that applies to everything?

            If you weren’t so argumentative, I probably could have helped you understand this.

            • SparrowHawk@feddit.itEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              I added it less than 5 minutes after I posted it, since I figured I wrote too little and wanted to make my point clearer.

              Maybe I wouldn’t have been so argumentative if you wouldn’t have been condescending in the first place.

              And yes, the idea of overpopulation comes from false premises about an exponential growth in human population which is very improbable to happen because birth rates in the global North are declining and so will those in the global South once children stop dropping like flies because of inhuman conditions forced on them by the powers that be.

              If I am so argumentative it is because overpop theory is rooted in racist arguments and is in my opinion a damaging idea to one’s view of the world and I am so tired of seeing everyone taking it for granted when really there’s nothing granted about it. It subtracts dialectical energy from actual issues and is ultimately just capitalist propaganda in my view

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      Everyone’s hoarding resources. Some are just better at it and luckier than others. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe!

      Sustaining this level of growth forever wouldn’t work even if all resources were distributed fairly. Norman Borlaug bought us some time but that’s essentially a constant factor on linear production vs exponential growth. Exponential growth always wins.