Current type of human population growth

Introduction

Human’s population in this lifetime period is growing fastest. Changes in

environment, medicine, and technologies let people develop and adjust to living longer.
Population to 1 billion people reached in the 1800s and for the next 200 years increased over
7 billion. In this research, I will analyze two different scientific articles and I will present
current type of human population growth.

Information review

All information sources agreed that humans are unique species with their
abilities to communicate and share food, shelter, medications they reached and dealt with
challenges and new possibilities. Starting from Africa and with migration assistance they now
live almost all around the world.  Diseases became overcome with vaccines and better public
health services, technologies let people deal with safe pregnancies and it increased birth rates.
Nowadays families with a lot of children are not that popular in developed
countries and it provides that the child will have a better possibility to become an adult. One
of the issues we will have to deal with in the future is to control this rapid growth because the
Earth area does not increase and countries like China had to take action called the one-child
policy, but they still face difficulties because families want to have a male family member.
Also, this growth will may lead to the point where we will feel a lack of food because there
will not be enough resources. Climate change is one of the population consequences and over
the years people have changed our planet to a different level. .1

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https://courses.lumenlearning.com/biology2xmaster/chapter/human-population-growth/ accessed 2021.04.10.
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Image is taken from: https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=79927&section=3
accessed 2021.04.10.

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 Most where population growth still be at a high level is in undeveloped
countries like Nigeria, Uganda where having a big family is one of the traditions and in
developed countries this growth will normalize or still be the same because parents here are
mostly planning their families and some of the adults chose not to have children. Sources
agree on the current type called an exponential rate. Also, India and China will stay most
crowded countries by 2100. Age expectancy will increase from 69 years to 82 years in
developed countries. The United Nations stated that the growth may vary from 7 billion (a
decrease) to 16 billion people by the year 2100. 3

Conclusions

World human population growth depends on an exponential rate type. Better

medicine, new technologies, people abilities to develop and create let this quick growth
happen. In the nearest future humans will have to deal with different challenges such as: lack
of food, free area, climate change will encourage migration because in some areas people will
not be able to live.

Literature references

1. By Colin Sullivan, ClimateWire. June 14, 2013. Human Population Growth Creeps Back Up.
Available at: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-population-growth-creeps-
back-up/ [accessed April 10, 2021].
2. Lumen. Module 24: Ecology and the Environment. 2017. Human Population Growth.
Available at: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/biology2xmaster/chapter/human-population-
growth/ [accessed April 11, 2021].

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https://courses.lumenlearning.com/biology2xmaster/chapter/human-population-growth/ accessed April 11,
2021.