Study Says Population Will Stop Growing in 2050

Researchers have predicted that the number of people on
Earth will stabilize around the middle of the century.
 The results, obtained with a model used by a research
team from the Autonomous University of Madrid, coincide
 with the UN's downward forecasts.According to United
Nations' estimates, the world population in 2100 will be
 within a range between 15.8 billion people according
to the highest estimates, high fertility variant- and
 6.2 billion according to the lowest, low fertility variant, a figure
 that stands below the current 7 billion. A mathematical model developed
 by a team from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the
 CEU-San Pablo University, both from Spain, seems to confirm the lower
estimate, in addition to a standstill and even a slight drop in the number
of people on Earth by the mid-21st century. The population prospects
 between 1950 and 2100 provided by the UN were used to conduct the
 study, published in the journal 'Simulation'.
Mathematical equations that are used in scientific fields, such as condensed matter physics,
were then applied to this data.
The model's S-shaped sigmoid curve reflects this situation with an inflection point
 in the mid-1980s when the speed at which the population is growing starts
 to slow down until it stabilises around 2050.
The data also reflected the downward trend in the UN's series of prospects.
"Overpopulation was a spectre in the 1960s and 70s but historically the
UN's low fertility variant forecasts have been fulfilled," Felix F. Munoz,
 UAM researcher and co-author of the project. highlighted.
Source:ANI