“**The global population growth rate – the change from one year to the next – peaked a long time ago**. In the 1960s it was growing at more than 2% per year. Since then, this rate has more than halved, to 0.8% in 2022. And it will keep falling in the decades to come. For population growth to be ‘exponential’ the growth rate would have to stay at 2% per year. ([Location 708](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=708))” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[statistics]], [[exponential-growth]], [[population-growth-rate]], [[growth]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]