{"id":9545,"date":"2021-07-11T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=9545"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:05:10","slug":"the-state-of-global-population-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=9545","title":{"rendered":"The state of Global Population in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Never before had population grown so rapidly &#8211; in 1950, five years after the founding of the United Nations, world population was estimated at around 2.6 billion people. It reached 5 billion in 1987 and 6 billion in 1999. In October 2011, the global population was estimated to be 7 billion. A global movement &#8220;7 Billion Actions&#8221; was launched to mark this milestone. The world\u2019s population is expected to increase by 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from 7.7 billion currently to 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to 1 billion \u2013 then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold. In 2011, the global population reached the 7 billion mark, and today, it stands at about 7.7 billion, and it&#8217;s expected to grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and 10.9 billion in 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/resources\/impact-covid-19-pandemic-family-planning-and-ending-gender-based-violence-female-genital\">UNFPA research<\/a>\u00a0highlighted that if the lockdown continues for 6 months with major disruptions to health services, then 47 million women in low- and middle-income countries may not be able to access modern contraceptives resulting in 7 million unintended pregnancies. 31 million additional cases of gender-based violence can also be expected. The disruption of UNFPA\u2019s programmes on the ground could result in 2 million cases of female genital mutilation and 13 million child marriages between 2020 and 2030 that could have been averted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never before had population grown so rapidly &#8211; in 1950, five years after the founding of the United Nations, world population was estimated at around 2.6 billion people. It reached 5 billion in 1987 and 6 billion in 1999. In October 2011, the global population was estimated to be 7 billion. A global movement &#8220;7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19126,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions\/19126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}