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Population grows in 2019 to 7,67 billion people with largest large growth in Africa

We will start in 2019 with more than 7,67 billion people celebrate. That there are 83 million more than the year before. That shares the German Foundation for w

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Population grows in 2019 to 7,67 billion people with largest large growth in Africa
We will start in 2019 with more than 7,67 billion people celebrate. That there are 83 million more than the year before. That shares the German Foundation for world Population (DSW) Friday in Hanover.

Especially the African population experienced a strong growth. Today, there are approximately 1.3 billion people. But according to the current projections of the United Nations to that number by 2050 -2.5 billion people - almost double. the

"One of the main causes for the population growth in Africa south of the Sahara, is the high number of unwanted pregnancies," said DSW president Renate Bähr. One in two women can have such a pregnancy does not occur, even if they would want to. "That has as a consequence that women, on average, one child more in the world than they wish."

Read also the Global decline of fertility rate

Reasons are lack of education, no birth control, no good health care and the lack of equal rights for women.

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