World population to reach 8 billion in November: U.N.

The global population will reach 8 billion in mid-November, with India likely to surpass China as the world's most populous country in 2023, a United Nations report said Monday.Affected by COVID-19, global life expectancy at birth fell to 71.0 years last year, down from 72.8 years in 2019, the United Nations said, adding the pandemic may have led to short-term reductions in the numbers of pregnancies and births.With fertility having declined markedly in recent decades in many countries, the global population growth rate in 2020 fell to less than 1 percent for the first time since 1950, acco…READ FULL ARTICLE