The number of people on Earth is set to shrink for the first time since the Middle Ages, experts say. Its population will increase from 66.6 million to peak at 74.9 million in 2063, before falling to 71.5 million by 2100. However, Italy’s population is predicted to fall from a peak of 61 million in 2014 down to 30.5 million in 2100. The world population has been rising continuously since the end of the Black Death, around the year 1350. The population in the Middle East will increase and it will treble in sub-Saharan Africa from one billion to three billion.

Source: Standard Digital July 14, 2020 23:03 UTC