8.1 Trends In Human Population Growth -

| Still Growing | Already Shrinking | Plateauing | |---------------|-------------------|-------------| | Sub-Saharan Africa (will triple) | Eastern Europe, Japan, South Korea | China, USA, Western Europe | | High fertility, declining death rates. | Why? Low fertility, aging, emigration. | Why? Below-replacement fertility, offset by immigration. |

The Big Picture: A Hockey Stick for the Ages Imagine a graph that is flat for 99% of human history, then suddenly shoots up like a rocket. That is the story of our population. For millennia, growth was slower than a snail's pace. Then, in the last 200 years—a blink of an evolutionary eye—we exploded from 1 billion to over 8 billion. 8.1 trends in human population growth

That is the story of 8.1. And it's just beginning. | Still Growing | Already Shrinking | Plateauing