Of that 35 million of the rest of the world 13 million is India alone
They won’t need humans for much longer.
Which rap record label should I invest in?
So some of the people who are least able to support them are having the most babies. And the rest of the world will end up paying for it in one way or another. Great.
I wonder who’s responsible for the inflection point on the blue line at the end of the graph.
Half of Africa’s growth comes from Nigeria and Ethiopia.
Just at the end of your graph Africa’s growth seems to flatten out while the rest of the world has a short sharp increase?
This is why people who construct an identity around being anti immigration are rarely bright. High immigration is a limited time offer, eventually all countries reach their subreplacement rate given enough development. Every sane government sees the writing on the wall and are scrambling to gobble up immigrants while yields are still good, which lead to a rise in simple minded right wing reactionaries.
I wonder what the world will look like in 2200. It looks like white people will become so rare. Like 4% of global population or something
can’t afford to have a kid when the corporation has new all time highs to meet on the stock market
Sometimes you wonder, would it be better if the conspiracy theorists where right about vaccination leading to infertility in africa?
What happened leading up to 1960?
There is a math fallacy here.
When variables can take both positive and negative values, summing them hides the underlying offsetting effects and you can’t attribute the net remainder to any one subset without examining the full gross flows.
In short:
It’s wrong to attribute “all net gains” to one group when others also had creation but larger losses.
10/10 graph, no notes. I’m miserable and a hard person to please.
Is there a similar graph with projected data, maybe with separate numbers all continents?
Wild that the smartphone came out and then growth started tanking around the globe. Correlation =///=causation and all that but it is a weird coincidence
Possibly wrong because of inflated population data in Africa
a quick search, says there was no drop in the world’s population in the 1960s.
whats up with this graph?
This Africa place sounds really nice!
African countries reproduce under any circumstances, the issue here is the rest of the world chooses to have less kids because of inflation and other reasons
The 2008 financial crisis really did a number on the global birth rate in developed countries. Up to that point it was even slightly trending up, but then it took a nose dive.
But where are they going *to*?
The African birth rate will likely drop off once health care increases. Child death rate will drop and parents won’t need to have as many children so that there are living children to support them in their old age.
Great news. Africa has the most genetic diversity – good for the resilience of our species.
Damn. The 90’s actually were peak America.
And damn did civilization fall off after 2010. For what it’s worth, that’s when I remember rent and housing getting crazy expensive. I had to leave the Bay Area because it was just waaaayyy too expensive.
![[OC] Half of Global Population Growth Now Comes from Africa](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/8smac4f8j2vf1-1920x1024.png)
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Data source: [World Population Prospect](https://population.un.org/wpp/)
Tools used: Matplotlib
Of that 35 million of the rest of the world 13 million is India alone
They won’t need humans for much longer.
Which rap record label should I invest in?
So some of the people who are least able to support them are having the most babies. And the rest of the world will end up paying for it in one way or another. Great.
I wonder who’s responsible for the inflection point on the blue line at the end of the graph.
Half of Africa’s growth comes from Nigeria and Ethiopia.
Just at the end of your graph Africa’s growth seems to flatten out while the rest of the world has a short sharp increase?
This is why people who construct an identity around being anti immigration are rarely bright. High immigration is a limited time offer, eventually all countries reach their subreplacement rate given enough development. Every sane government sees the writing on the wall and are scrambling to gobble up immigrants while yields are still good, which lead to a rise in simple minded right wing reactionaries.
I wonder what the world will look like in 2200. It looks like white people will become so rare. Like 4% of global population or something
can’t afford to have a kid when the corporation has new all time highs to meet on the stock market
Sometimes you wonder, would it be better if the conspiracy theorists where right about vaccination leading to infertility in africa?
What happened leading up to 1960?
There is a math fallacy here.
When variables can take both positive and negative values, summing them hides the underlying offsetting effects and you can’t attribute the net remainder to any one subset without examining the full gross flows.
In short:
It’s wrong to attribute “all net gains” to one group when others also had creation but larger losses.
10/10 graph, no notes. I’m miserable and a hard person to please.
Is there a similar graph with projected data, maybe with separate numbers all continents?
Wild that the smartphone came out and then growth started tanking around the globe. Correlation =///=causation and all that but it is a weird coincidence
Possibly wrong because of inflated population data in Africa
a quick search, says there was no drop in the world’s population in the 1960s.
whats up with this graph?
This Africa place sounds really nice!
African countries reproduce under any circumstances, the issue here is the rest of the world chooses to have less kids because of inflation and other reasons
The 2008 financial crisis really did a number on the global birth rate in developed countries. Up to that point it was even slightly trending up, but then it took a nose dive.
But where are they going *to*?
The African birth rate will likely drop off once health care increases. Child death rate will drop and parents won’t need to have as many children so that there are living children to support them in their old age.
Great news. Africa has the most genetic diversity – good for the resilience of our species.
Damn. The 90’s actually were peak America.
And damn did civilization fall off after 2010. For what it’s worth, that’s when I remember rent and housing getting crazy expensive. I had to leave the Bay Area because it was just waaaayyy too expensive.
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