Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. We're the good cop, bad cop

interrogators of dodgy statistics and I'm Tim Harford. This week, the future of the human race.

There are more than 7.7 billion people on the planet today. Is that a big number? Well, it has more than tripled since 1950.

But population growth has slowed down a lot.

The experts think it will stabilise somewhere around 11 billion people.

But just because global population is stabilising

doesn't mean each country is following the global trend.

Loyal listener Roger Young spotted a surprising looking stat in the British newspaper, The Times.

I read that in 60 years' time, the population of Nigeria will be greater than the population of the

whole of Europe. Is this likely?

To put this into context, there are currently just over 200 million people in Nigeria

and over 740 million in Europe, which for the purposes of this claim includes Russia and Turkey.

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