After all, businesses will need workers. The new study shows how far off the mark earlier assumptions about exploding population growth fell. According to the study, population will climb from the current 7.8 billion to 9.7 billion by 2064, but that will be the end of the increases. To keep the population unchanged, women must have an average of 2.1 babies, the replacement fertility rate, the study found. China, America's principal economic and geostrategic rival, will shrink from the current 1.4 billion to 730 million, the study predicts.

Source: CNN July 16, 2020 00:00 UTC