Why are population rates falling as Earth hits 8 billion people?

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Vinice Mabansag born in the Philippines capital, Manila was the eight billionth person to be born on our planet 🍼🌏

People gather at a weekly market to buy household items in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Vinice Mabansag was born in the Philippines capital, Manila, at 1.29am on Tuesday, 15 November.

‘This unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine,’ the UN said.But while that number seems huge, the UN has said the world’s population increase is actually slowing down.They estimate it will be 15 years before we hit nine billion because, as they put it, ‘the overall growth rate of the global population is slowing.

Data shows that areas of the world where education and rights for women are lacking have the highest fertility rates.In other areas of the world, simple cost is the overriding reason behind falling birth rates. . But Herrman says that ‘net immigration has circumvented population decline in some Western European countries, for example, but high net emigration has exacerbated population decline in some of their Eastern European neighbours.’

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