[WA]

There is a fantastic video by Hans Rosling about the global population growth and why global population might actually stall around 10 billion people:

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_...

This relates to fact 2 in the article.

[lancebeet]

His foundation's website also has some really nice data visualizations: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/

[amingilani]

Here's a UN chart: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/

[ForHackernews]

For the sake of the environment and every nonhuman species, we'd better hope that population growth doesn't just stall but reverses itself.

[vjerancrnjak]

It's going to be weird to live in an age when pyramidal schemes (pension systems, academia etc.), that have been foundation of the modern civilization, start falling apart (given that they are based on a healthy population pyramid).

[ForHackernews]

We're going to have to adapt. New technology and higher productivity should allow us to keep enjoying higher standards of living with declining populations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy

[gbear605]

That's modern-day Japan.