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World's population to increase by a third by 2050 despite fall in fertility rates

Andy Day

30th July 2015

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The world's population is likely to grow to 9.7 billion by 2050 from the current 7.3 billion according to the latest UN report.

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Andy Day

Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.

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