According to a recent study, the world population is expected to reach eleven billion people by the year 2100.

According to a recent study, the world population is expected to reach eleven billion people by the year 2100.

An international team of researchers including the United Nations Population Division has predicted that the human population will continue to grow instead of starting to level off in the next century, as previous studies had projected.

Statistics from the study show an eighty percent chance that the global population will be between nine point six and 12 point 3 billion people by the end of the 21st century.

Acknowledging the significant margin is what makes this study unique.

Previous consensus was that the world population would increase to nine billion people around the year 2050, before starting to level off.

Other world population studies agree that India is going to become the most populous country in the world, but they have different numbers when it comes to the population decline in China, or how fast the population is expected to increase in sub-Saharan Africa.

Both a higher fertility rate caused by a lack of access to birth control, along with overestimates of the number of lives claimed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic show that the population is likely to continue increasing.