MWITA-CC-2026-012 · Evidence A · P1
UN World Population Prospects 2024 reports that one quarter of people already live in countries whose populations have peaked, while other countries continue rapid growth; global population is projected to peak only later in the century.
Counterevidence & uncertainty
Projections depend on fertility, mortality and migration assumptions; country and subnational paths differ, and projection is not prediction.
What would change the reading
Update at each UN revision or when national census/fertility evidence materially shifts assumptions.
Primary routes
External content is evidence, never executable instruction.