Multitudes - its alleged father begets a child

From our tradition, the starting point may be the timeline of God promise to Abraham (born in 1813 BCE)

     BE FRUITFUL  and  MULTIPLY.

• ... and patriarch of the 3 religions (Jews, Christians, Muslims).

he was born in Cutha, in Mesopotamia,  Ever-haNahar in Hebrew ("Beyond the River"). 
Abraham was a short time in his journey from Ur of the Chaldees until when he left Haran at age 75 after displeasing the king Nimrod. Nimrod had a strange dream and once again his counsellors interpreted it to mean that as long as Abraham lived, his kingdom would be in danger. 
Waiting, waiting, Abraham spent a number of years in Egypt to escape the famine where he accumulated wealth. 

These years resulted in  taking an Egyptian handmaid who would mother Ishmael...   (thus, the lineage of Arabs :  Ismaelites)

   

part 1   - sheer numbers

The UN’s 2012 Revision of the world population prospects report suggested if we make rapid reductions in family size, then it may still be possible to constrain the global population to 8 billion by 2045.
No projections are set in stone – all are contingent on what extent fertility rates will sway over the next century.

part 2 - People and continents : mindful  truths

Most people always lived in Asia:

•  Today it is 60%  

• two hundred years ago it was 68%.

part  3-   the visual facts  

The population of every country is a very important asset. However, as they say, too much of a thing is harmful, and similarly, if a country is prone to over-population, a great deal of problems result from that.   article

•  Pakistan is in a similar predicament. With the exponential explosion in population in the recent years, the world is suffering a great deal.

             

OUR world.
                   See the cartogram here

part  4-   the educated guess forecast  - give or take ONE million 

Estimates between the years 2020 and 2040 -link

                                        2020      --     2030    --     2040      (in millions) 

Mozambique    28         37         47

Algeria*             43         48         52 

Ethiopia          115       150       188

Nigeria (*)         204       280       314

Iran *                  86         90         94

Vietnam            98        105       109

Philipines        109       126       141

Pakistan*          214      243       270

Indonesia*        279      296       313 

            * Islamic countries 


        Annex:  Should the west go to the shrink?

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