Population

• [New] By 2060, US life expectancy for the total population is projected to increase by six years to 85.6 in 2060 from 79.7 years in 2017.
• [New] By year 2030, OA is predicted to affect one in four adults in the United States becoming the major cause of morbidity among individuals over 40 years of age.
• [New] Unless humanity makes enormous changes in the way they live and in what they eat, the entire populations of the world's fished species will collapse by about 2048.
• [New] The U.S. population is projected to grow over the next 40 years, but at significantly declining growth rates, especially among working age people, 25-64, which will be a formidable headwind on organic industry AUM growth.
• [New] In 2019, millennials and Generation Z accounted for around 60% of the population in China's urban areas - a number that is projected to reach 65% by 2025.
• [New] Current projections have Africa's population doubling to 2.5 billion people by 2050, when Africa will be home to about a quarter of the world's population.
• [New] Australia's overall population growth is expected to be just 0.2% in 2020-21 and 0.4% in 2021-22, the slowest growth in over a century.
• By 2050, Africa's population is expected to grow to about 2.5 billion people, and include a third of the world's youth (people age 15 to 35).
• In 2019 the world population of people over 65 years of age was around 700 million and it is estimated that the senior population will grow by another 300 million in the next ten years, to reach close to a billion people by 2030.
• ASEAN is the world's third most populous economy and is projected to become the fourth largest economy by 2030.
• The population of older people in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to reach 67 million by 2025 and 163 million by 2050.
• China's pet population growth is projected to be among the fastest over the next several years, with it expected to match U.S. ownership (400 million pets) by 2024 from approximately one-third that rate currently.
• Sixty percent of the global population will live in cities by 2030, with 90% of urban growth in the coming decades likely to occur in low- and middle-income countries.
• In India, the number of Muslims is projected to rise to more than 31 crores by 2050, about 11% of wold's Muslim population, making India the country with the largest Muslim population in the world.
• Population growth in Africa is expected to grow exponentially through the next 20 years.
• The Europe region is expected to grow with the highest growth rate in the forecast period of 2019 to 2026 because of increasing research activities in exosome therapeutic by population.
• By 2030 India had the third largest economy in the world and had overtaken China as the country with the biggest population.
• Africa's working-age population is expected to increase by some 450 million people between 2015 and 2035 where affordable internet access will mean creating millions of job opportunities.
• India has majority of its population below the age of 25, a number that will look for jobs for the next decade.
• China's working-age population is expected to decline by about 12% over the next twenty years even as the total population rises slightly.
• One in ten central banks - representing approximately one-fifth of the world's population - expect to issue their own digital currencies within the next three years.
• Middle-class growth driven by urbanization and education should help counter the effects of the rapid population aging trend in many economies, including China
• In 2019, more than half of the global population belongs to Asia, and it is expected to hold the highest urban population by 2050.

Last updated: 22 November 2020