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by ZeroGravitas 712 days ago
The global human poulation isn't growing mostly due to births currently, it's growing because a very old generation is dying off and an old generation is aging but not dying as fast as the previous one.

Global replacement rate of ~2.1 is approaching (at the low end of estimates we're past it already), we're at 2.2 or so and population peak estimates keep getting lowered as models are updated with newer numbers, even with people living longer.

https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-release...