Could Migration Help Ease The World's Population Challenges?
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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NPR's Emily Feng reports on the long term consequences of China's shrinking population.
We also hear from Lant Pritchett, research director with the think tank Labor Mobility Partnerships, about the ways in which migration could help tackle population imbalances.
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| 0:00.0 | On November 15th, 2022, Earth's population hit 8 billion people. |
| 0:08.0 | That's right. Everyone agrees. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, it takes humanity past 8 billion human beings. |
| 0:15.0 | The traffic jams, the crowded trains, the crowds. |
| 0:19.0 | If you're noticing more people everywhere, that's because they're literally are. |
| 0:23.0 | The United States. |
| 0:24.0 | 8 billion and counting as the global population hits another milestone. |
| 0:30.0 | It took 12 years for Earth to grow from 7 billion to 8 billion people. |
| 0:35.0 | And sure, there are a lot of challenges associated with population growth. |
| 0:39.0 | Food security, for example. But on the plus side, Andrea Wonar calls the 8 billion milestone |
| 0:45.0 | a triumph of human development. |
| 0:47.0 | Wonar is the India representative for the UN Population Fund. |
| 0:51.0 | The number of human beings is more than ever due to increasing life expectancy, |
| 0:56.0 | but also declining infant and maternal mortality. |
| 0:59.0 | So for us, that's a mark of progress in medicine and in health systems. |
| 1:04.0 | So this is a landmark in human survival. |
| 1:07.0 | Many countries around the world are fueling the growth. |
| 1:10.0 | India is one. Another is Nigeria. |
| 1:13.0 | The United Nations projects that over the next three decades, |
| 1:16.0 | Nigeria's population will jump from its current 200 million people to more than 375 million. |
| 1:24.0 | That'll make Nigeria the fourth most populous country in the world, |
| 1:28.0 | after China, India and the United States. |
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