World Population

My friend and I got into a discussion the other day regarding abortion and she brought up the point that the population of the world would be outrageous right now if no one ever was able to get an abortion. I found this claim to be completely outrageous and decided to do some investigation. According to USA Today, The world's population will increase by 40% to 9.1 billion in 2050. Although this is a startling number, they report that, for the most part, the increase in population will occur in developing countries. They claim that the population in the 50 poorest countries will soar from 5.3 billion today to 7.8 billion in 2050. However, the population in the richer countries will remain pretty much the same at 1.2 billion. This is problematic because the poorer countries are already struggling as it is. Population growth in a mere eight countries: (India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda, the United States, Ethiopia and China) will make up half of this increase in the world population. It is going to be very interseting to see how the world will react and deal with this increase in the population in the coming years. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-02-25-population_x.htm