The global population growth rate – the change from one year to the next – peaked a long time ago. In the 1960s it was growing at more than 2% per year.17 Since then, this rate has more than halved, to 0.8% in 2022. And it will keep falling in the decades to come. For population growth to be ‘exponential’ the growth rate would have to stay at 2% per year.
