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Demographic Change: 9 Billion People
A predicted population for the year 2050 is between 9 - 9.8 billion people. However, the fertility rate worldwide had decreased. The amount of older people increased, and people would live longer. The country with most population is still the same as of today, China and India. India is poised to take over China as the country with most people. Some say India may be even already is larger than China.
Urban Population
By 2050 the population living urban area may be between 66-70% of the world population. As of now over 54% are living in urban area.
Energy Demand and Consumption Increases
This comes as no surprise as population increases so does the energy demand. With China and India needing more of it as well as other emerging countries.
CO2 Emission Continues to Rise
The CO2 will still continue to rise even if attempts to reduce C02 emissions are put in place.
Electric Cars
Electric cars would become more common if not had taken over ICE powered cars. UK, France and China had announced plans to ban ICE cars within urban areas by 2040's in attempt to reduce air pollution in big cities where in Paris, London and especially Beijing experiences severe smog. Also reduce C02 emission, prompting car companies to produce and develop electric cars even more. In the future more countries may follow stance.
Economic Wealth Changes: Emerging Countries
By 2050 the top biggest economies would shift from G7 to E7
Biggest Jumps in GDP Ranking: Vietnam, The Philippines and Nigeria
China is The Biggest Economy in Both PPP & Nominal Measures
China is poised to be the biggest economy, in terms of PPP China is already the biggest since 2014-2015 but not in nominal measures. It is predicted in 2026 China would overtake USA as the biggest (nominal).
GDP Per Capita
According to Willem Buiter of Citigroup, the top countries with the highest GDP Per Capita will be the Asian countries. In the top 10 it is a mix of Western countries (5) and Asian countries (5).
Mega Cities
The number of mega city (10 million population) in the world would increase. This is not a surprise since world population is bound to increase.
New Countries and Independent Countries
There will be new countries...Which? I don't know but given with the timeline of new countries it's most likely there will be new ones.
1960 Central African Republic
1960 Chad
1960 Gabon
1960 Dahomey (Republic of Benin)
1960 Upper Volta (Burkino Faso)
1960 Togo
1960 Senegal
1960 Niger
1960 Mali
1960 Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)
1960 Ivory Coast
1962 Algeria
1962 Jamaica
1975 Comoros
1976 Samoa
1977 Djibouti
1980 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1981 Vanuatu
1990 Namibia
1991 Estonia
1992 Croatia
1992 Slovenia
1993 Eritrea
1993 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
1994 Palau
1999 Kiribati
2000 Tuvalu
2002 Timor-Leste
2006 Montenegro
2011 South Sudan
The newest country as of 2017 (nearing 2018 very close) is South Sudan, founded in 9th July 2011 after a referendum. Since then, Scotland closely almost became an independent country in 2014. In the current events Catalonia of Spain may succeed to become the newest country or Kurdistan.
Countries gone
North Korea may soon be gone. Taiwan if invaded by China could also be gone.
Religion: Christianity
Christianity will still be the most popular religion but Islam is fast rising. Click if you want to read more
Here are just some of the predicted stuff in the 2050.
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