⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa #9: Global population and demographic trends

The planet groans / every time it registers another birth

…Continuing my survey across the 2022 global macro landscape within which Aotearoa exists, this week let’s take a broader look at global population and demographic trends.

Total global population will hit 8 billion in 2022

“the planet groans

every time it registers another birth”

— Paul Simon, Born at the right time

The earliest fossil fragment records of Ho…