White People are Not Comfortable with their Numbers. White people are vastly outnumbered. 90% or more of the world's population are non-white people. That is, 10% or less of the world population lack skin color and the genetic ability to produce skin color. The Color Confrontation Theory postulates that these two things, 1) color deficiency and 2) numerical inadequacy (consciously or subconsciously) scare white people to death: they are primary motivations that cause them to practice racism and fuel the global system of racism/white supremacy. [MORE]

From [HERE] The possibility that the world’s population will climb to 11 billion by the end of the century is gaining traction now that demographers are using probability methods for their projections.

A paper published online on Thursday in the journal Science details new methodology that shows that most of the world’s anticipated growth is in Africa, where population is projected to quadruple from about 1 billion today to 4 billion by 2100.

Demography researcher John Bongaarts, vice president of the Population Council in New York City adds the caveat that, “it could very well be that we could have epidemics, or wars, or unrest that creates massive mortality. But to be honest, it would require something of a huge magnitude to alter this trajectory.” [MORE]

“For the last 20 years, prevailing opinion was that world population would go up to 9 billion and level off in the middle of the century and maybe decline,” said Adrian Raftery, one of the paper’s lead authors and a professor of statistics and sociology at the University of Washington. “Population is going to keep growing. We can say that with confidence.”

Not only with confidence but with an exact percentage. There is a 70 percent probability that world population, now at 7 billion, will not stabilize this century, according to the research.

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are adding people more rapidly than expected, said John Wilmoth, director of the United Nations’ Population Division and a co-author of the paper. The U.N. has been using the new probability model in its most recent projections.

“Fertility levels turn out to be higher today than was expected 10 years ago,” he said. “There’s been a worldwide reduction in fertility, even in sub-Saharan Africa over the last two decades. It’s falling, but slower than expected and more slowly than in other countries in Asia and Latin America.”

Earlier projections “took what happened in other countries, where birth rates came down and applied that across the board,” said Carl Haub, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C. “The big issue is with Africa. It had not gone down very fast.”

Latest projections show that there is an 80 percent chance that the population in Africa will be 3.5 billion to 5.1 billion by 2100. Other regions are expected to see less growth. Asia, now at 4.4 billion, is projected to peak at about 5 billion in 2050 and then drop. In North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, population is projected to stay below 1 billion each. [MORE]