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Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG

THINK Global School · 2M views · 2015-12-01 · 16:37

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Hans Rosling uses population statistics to explain why the world population will level off rather than grow without limit. He shows that falling child mortality and rising prosperity lead to smaller families.

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Offered as an approachable, data-driven rebuttal to Malthusian overpopulation fears.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2017–2023

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xscott · 2021-06 · Recommendation

This video might be more approachable: [VIDEO] I'm sure it won't convince all of the Malthusian doom and gloom sorts, but it's worth a try.

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brownbat · 2019-06 · Recommendation

Hans Rosling rebuts this, especially in Factfulness.* If you look at population trends in countries worldwide, populations routinely level out only after improving underlying economic and health conditions. When infant mortality is high and children are an economic necessity, parents compensate by having many kids. When a country gets better healthcare and better economic opportunities, there's an initial generation of population explosion as more kids suddenly survive childhood, but then the population immediately plateaus and begins to recede. The epidemiological studies and population data is overwhelming that the simple model Malthus used fails to explain human behavior. * Also in some videos online: 1. [LINK] 2. [VIDEO] But to put in a closing plug for Factfulness, it's one of the best simple and accessible primers how to avoid major cognitive biases, and also teaches a lot about the current state of the world.

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PaulMest · 2018-03 · Recommendation

What do you think the benefits of mandatory population control are? Have you seen any of Hans Rosling's [1] talks on the topic of population growth? After watching, would you still think there is need for mandatory population control? [1] [VIDEO]

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