Population

• [New] With the world's population predicted to reach approximately 9.1 billion by 2050 - translating to +70% food availability - sustainable packaging can make a difference, helping mitigate impact while ensuring access to safe food.
• [New] With nearly two-thirds of the world's population expected to face water shortages by 2025, water scarcity presents a growing risk for businesses and communities around the world.
• [New] As more than half of the world's population lives in cities today and expects to reach 80% by 2050, cities need to recognize that they are the key contributor to climate change.
• [New] Barring a political breakthrough, Lebanon's crisis is expected to deepen with the World Bank projecting over half of the population plunging into poverty in 2021.
• [New] Nigeria's current population of 206 million is forecast to rise continually through the rest of this century, and by 2100 the 790 million Nigerians would outnumber the population of China.
• [New] With the global population expected to grow by roughly two billion people by 2050, improving access to affordable and healthy food will be critical in reducing malnutrition and the associated health-care costs.
• [New] As the population of America ages, nursing homes will house more people than ever in the coming years.
• [New] By 2024, at least half of the world's population is expected to use digital wallets for transactions that will be valued at more than $9 trillion annually.
• [New] If current levels of migration continue, the Muslim population of Austria is forecast to reach around 20% of the total population by 2050.
• [New] The economic value of South Asia's agribusiness is expected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030, which is about twice the current value.
• Nearly half the world's population, around 3.6 billion people, face water-scarcity for at least one month per year, and it is expected that over 5 billion people will suffer some water shortage by 2050.
• The aging population in the U.S. means that more Medicare patients will require spine care in the coming years, with the case mix continuing to shift away from commercial payers.
• During the next decades, global population and economic growth will continue to increase groundwater demand and accompanying groundwater depletion and, when exacerbated by droughts, will probably increase land subsidence occurrence and related damages or impacts.
• Over the coming decades, the agricultural food system will undergo an accelerated transformation to provide access to enough food for a growing world population.
• The total transaction value of digital payments is expected to reach nearly $4.8 trillion, and in fewer than five years, half the world's population will be armed with a digital wallet.
• Suriname, like most countries across the world, has faced significant economic and social disruption in 2020 brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• By the end of 2022, Deutsche Bank expects sports betting to be legal in states that account for 45% of the US population.
• Almost a quarter of the global population will not have access to a vaccine until at least 2022.
• The population in the Sahel is on target to hit 330 million by 2050 - seven times its population in 2000, a growth rate which, if applied to the UK, would have seen that country's population soar from 59 to 413 million.
• By 2100 Nigeria at 733 million people would be the third most populous country in the world after India and China.
• Sao Tome and Principe has not escaped the COVID-19 related disruption experienced by most of the world in 2020.
• Namibia has not escaped the COVID-19 related disruption experienced by most of the world in 2020.

Last updated: 14 January 2021