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.
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.