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“The cited projection says the global over-65 population rises from 852 million in 2025 to 2 billion by 2060 and accounts for more than half of population growth in that period; the surrounding discussion says these numbers are understated because India and parts of Africa still have high birth rates, while the shift is more acute in China and Europe.”
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Checked in Galedra: score 1.00, strongly supported · not yet reviewed by anyone else “The cited projection says the global over-65 population rises from 852 million in 2025 to 2 billion by 2060 and accounts for more than half of population growth in that period; the surrounding…” https://galedra.org/investigations/01a0ea2b-3c35-7ae7-b5ab-c349c8d56c93
“The cited projection says the global over-65 population rises from 852 million in 2025 to 2 billion by 2060 and accounts for more than half of population growth in that period; the surrounding discussion says these numbers are understated because India and parts of Africa still have high birth rates, while the shift is more acute in China and Europe.”
Supported · 0.9955 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · review checks 1 of 4 · provisional until audited.
3 of 4 review checks done · 1 counted · 2 by the author only
Sources read
- An Aging World: 2025 · https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2026/demo/p95-26-1.pdf
- World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results · https://population.un.org/wpp/assets/Files/WPP2024_Summary-of-Results.pdf
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