The Omaha Bugle Discusses New Global Population Estimates by the United Nations and Two Kids Down the Street

Send us a text

Adam and Jeff turn their attention to a recent report that the United Nations has lowered their predictions that the global population in the year 2100 will be at least a billion less than past estimates.  Adam and Jeff return to a recurring theme that demographers, like everyone else, get caught up in the trends and forget to question the long-term viability of those very same trends.  Jeff points out that many demographers take a bird's eye view of population trends whereas others ask individuals about their preferences and draw their own conclusions.  In short, it appears that most women do not want to have 6 or 7 children and sit in a grass hut all day long, instead preferring to  pursue careers and other opportunities that were not always available to them in the past.  This mystifying trends appears to have surprised most demographers who have had to drastically revise downward their predictions about the world's population in the coming decades.  In the spirit of efficiency, Jeff predicts that there will be  7 billion people in the world in the year 2100, pointing out that he did not waste any time hiring an expensive, credentialed staff that was going to get the prediction wrong anyways.