KARACHI: Pakistan is expected to see a 56% increase in its population to 366 million individuals by 2050, a recent United Nations report revealed.
The UN report titled: “World Population Prospects 2022” also projected that the global population, which currently stands at 7.7 billion, will reach 8 billion by the end of 2022, according to The News.
Despite the declining trend in the overall population growth by 1%, the population peak will hit in 2080, with the world population growing to 10.4 billion. Earlier, the peak was estimated to hit after the year 2100.
The report also attributes Pakistan as one of the leading contributors to population growth.
In 1990, the country, with 114 million people, stood at the eighth position in the list of the world’s most populous countries. It has climbed up three spots to reach the fifth fertility issues in married couples and a change in lifestyle.
In May 2022, at the 8th Midsummer Endocrine Updates Conference of the Pakistan Endocrine Society (PES), titled ‘Endocrinology for the Future’, health experts shared that around four million married couples in Pakistan are infertile.
There are certain lifestyle changes that are leading to low birth rates. According to a 2014 World Bank report, many Pakistani men showed interest in family planning due to the growing challenges of raising large families.
