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by jules 5692 days ago
It seems that we are at the inflection point of the sigmoid:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/World-Pop...
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j_baker 5692 days ago
The last estimate I seem to find on the subject said that the population should level off at 10 billion in 2200. Granted, this is from 1999: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/six...
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shasta 5692 days ago
Reassuring to see that the UN doesn't predict any large discontinuities in that graph
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