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The population increase on our planet has taken on alarming and uncontrollable proportions
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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In one of the Australian institutes, a group of specialists conducted a study that showed that the population of the earth is increasing too quickly. According to forecasts, by the end of the 21st century, the population of the earth will reach ten billion (today, according to some data, about seven billion live on earth).
According to the study, the increase in the population of our planet is no longer controllable, it has acquired large-scale and dangerous rates. Australian experts in their study took as a basis the data of the World Health Organization and the United Nations, as well as the dynamics of the increase in the population of the planet. As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that "natural selection" is not able to normalize the population of the earth, and even the Third World War is not able to improve the situation, since the birth rate is completely out of control, having increased by almost 1/3.
According to Professor Carrie Bradshaw, the rapid growth rate of the planet's population is unacceptable, as it could threaten quite serious problems, in particular, the deterioration of the already difficult environmental situation, climate change, and a shortage of essential food and drinking water.
Today, China is the world's largest country by population, but perhaps in ten years, India could overtake China in terms of population.
Until 1991, the largest state (third in a row) was the Soviet Union, but after its collapse its position was taken by the United States of America (since 2006, the number of Americans has reached 300 million).
Next in terms of population are Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Russia.
It is worth recalling that at a meeting of the members of the committee of the National People's Congress of China, the "One Family - One Child" law was slightly relaxed, and labor camps were also eliminated.
Chinese lawmakers say the system that relied on forced labor for correction should be replaced with new methods.
China's labor camp system was established in 1957, and by law, authorities had every right to send people to labor camps for even minor offenses without prior investigation or trial.
The decision to relax the policy regarding the demographic situation in the country was also decided to be adopted by the legislators, since the principle of only one child per family was disapproved by the population. The authorities decided to allow having a second child in a family where the mother or father is the only child in their former family (previously, having a second child was allowed only in cases where both the mother and father were the only children of their parents).
The policy was introduced about three decades ago, but local media believe the approach has only led to China's population aging, causing some resentment among the general Chinese public.