Global Population Is Projected To Shrink For The First Time Since The Black Death | by Grant Piper | Apr, 2024 | Medium

Global Population Is Projected To Shrink For The First Time Since The Black Death

What is causing our population slow down?

Grant Piper

5 min read

Apr 19, 2024

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The world’s population sits at roughly 8 billion people. This is the result of a continuous population increase that has been going on since the bubonic plague swept across the Earth. The end of the Medieval Period saw a notable population crunch. Between the…