World's population to peak in mid-2080s

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations released a report on Thursday, also the UN's World Population Day, projecting that the global population will peak this century.

According to a summary of World Population Prospects 2024, it is expected that the world's population will peak in the mid-2080s, growing over the next 60 years from 8.2 billion people this year to around 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s, and then will return to around 10.2 billion by the end of the century.

The size of the world's population in 2100 is now expected to be 6 percent lower — or 700 million fewer — than anticipated a decade ago.