http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
I am person number 4,420,164,425. Life expectancy 79.5 (on the NHS?)
What's next? The global population will continue to increase during your lifetime and beyond, reaching 10 billion by 2083. However, the rate of growth is expected to slow. Little of the current growth is happening in developed countries like yours.
Longer lives: Working-age people like you will be supporting increasing numbers of older people during the next decades. By 2050, there will be just 2.2 people of working age supporting every person aged 65 or older in the developed world. In Europe, this will drop to just two.
Battle for resources: It is estimated that your group of the richest countries consumes double the resources used by the rest of the world. The UN estimates that if current population and consumption trends continue, by the 2030s we will need the equivalent of two Earths to support us. (uh oh)
Did you know? The average family size globally has declined by half since 1950 - from five children in to the current 2.5.
Interesting and scary at the same time.
