These are projected to be the most populated nations in the world in 2050, 35 years from
now, determined by combining the most up-to-date information provided by the UN with numerous
factors, including current growth rates, migration, fertility, population age, and mortality rates.
Number twenty is Turkey with 94 million, even though will grow by 17 million people, it
falls two spots in the ranking.
19th is Iran, which also drops two spots.
It will have over 100 million people.
In 2015, there are only twelve countries with more than 100 million.
Vietnam is currently near capacity and will fall five spots, only adding 12 million people
to its population.
Uganda is this list’s biggest riser, jumping 21 places by nearly tripling its population
to 104 million, from just 34 million in 2015.
Japan’s aging population and low birth rate will see it lose six spots and decrease in
size by 18 million people.
Number 15 is Russia, also down six spots.
It’s total will also decline significantly, it’s aging, but it’s also hemorrhaging
people because of a declining economic future.
Egypt will be the 14th most-populated nation on the planet, ticking up a spot by adding
over 37% more people than it has now.
13th is Tanzania, continuing the dominant trend of huge sub-saharan African projected
population gains by leaping 15 spots and increasing its population by 174%.
Congo too will more than double in size, gaining seven spots on this list.
Slow development and a lack of access to birth control are the main reasons why populations
in Africa are booming.
The 11th-ranked country will be Mexico, the same rank it held 35 years earlier by gaining
people at a relatively average rate.
The Philippines will move up two spots to enter the top-ten by adding 56 million human
beings.
Ninth is Ethiopia, more than doubling its residents by adding a staggering 97 million
to its total.
Even though it will add 43 million, Bangladesh will remain the eighth most-populated country
in the world.
And as Brazil becomes an economic powerhouse, it’s boom will slow, dropping two spots
in the rankings.
It is the only South American country in the top 20.
Pakistan doesn’t increase in the rankings at all either despite adding more than 80
million people to its total.
Indonesia drops one spot to fifth with a total population of 321 million.
As it continues its high level of development, the United States of America will fall a spot
too, getting bumped out of the top three by
Nigeria, which leaps up four.
It will add a society-straining 257 million people.
And the top two countries will swap positions, as China will only be the second-most populated
nation with 1.38 billion people, after significantly slowing the rapid growth it experienced during
the 20th century.
And India takes the top spot, increasing its already larger-than one-billion population
another 26 percent to 1 Billion, 620 million.
Overall the world will add about 2.4 billion people for a total gain of 34% over the next
35 years.
With nearly 9 and a half billion humans to support, our planet will be pushed to its
limit.
Of course, many things could change these projections, such as mass-migration due to
climate change, war, or development, but given the way things look now, these are roughly
what the populations of the world’s biggest nations are expected to be in the near-future.
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