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Global population will peak at 10.3 billion by 2100: United Nations

The United Nations (UN) has predicted that Earth’s population would reach peak of 10.3 billion people in the mid-1980s and then gradually decline to level significantly below what was predicted ten years earlier.

According to a UN research titled “World Population Prospects 2024″, which was released on Thursday, the world’s population of 8.2 billion will reach its peak in the next 60 years and then decline to 10.2 billion by the end of the century.

According to this prediction, the number of people on Earth in 2100 will be 700 million fewer than in June 2013, or 6% fewer than in June 2013.

The study by the United Nations (UN) has claimed that lower fertility rates in several of the greatest nations