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Siegel: Global Population Will Peak Late This Century and Then Decline

Larry Siegel · Laurence Siegel – Current Myths and Long-Term Optimism (Capital Allocators, EP.137) · May 11, 2020 · at 50:40

Financial economist Larry Siegel discusses the thesis of his book 'Fewer, Richer, Greener' on long-term global demographic trends.

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“The population is going to continue to grow slowly and peak late in this century and then begin to decline.”

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The claim, plainly

Global population will continue to grow slowly, peak late in the 21st century, and then begin to decline.

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Assessment

The claim forecasts that world population will peak late in the 21st century and subsequently decline. As of 2026-09-02, current demographic benchmark projections from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (World Population Prospects 2024 Revision) project a peak at approximately 10.3 billion in 2084 before entering a secular decline, aligning closely with the claim's thesis. However, because the stated event is projected to occur in the late 21st century (with a horizon through 2099-12-31), actual empirical verification of the peak and subsequent decline cannot be determined prior to that timeframe.

UN World Population Prospects (2024 Revision) projects global population to peak around 2084 at ~10.3 billion and decline to ~10.2 billion by 2100 under its medium-variant model.
Alternative demographic models (IHME 2020/2024, IIASA SSP2) project peaks between 2064 and 2070 followed by decline.
Because the event horizon extends through 2099-12-31, empirical outcome data does not yet exist as of September 2026.

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[1] un.org [2] un.org [3] youtube.com [4] macromicro.me [5] spacedaily.com [6] ourworldindata.org [7] wikipedia.org [8] nih.gov

IHME Lancet global population peak 2064 9.7 billion UN World Population Prospects 2024 peak population year world population peak projections UN DESA IHME Wittgenstein 2080s 2070s

assessed as of 2026-09-02

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