The yellow box is usually cool, but here the estimates are so close, it takes too much trial and error. Pakistan? No. Nigeria? No. Brazil? No. Ethiopia? No.
Iraq's population has seen steady growth throughout the last 25 years. The biggest problem in future might be environmental (especially threats to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which are the lifelines of the country).
If you compare, which countries win and which ones loose population, its very noticable that the richest countries mostly loose population, while poorer countries win population in an alarming rate.
There are some exceptions like the UK and the numbers for China are mostly sinking because of their countermeasures against their exploding population, but over all population growth seems to be inversely proportional to wealth
I disagree with Italy because they have a fertility rate of 1.2 which is far below 2.1. In order to shrink at such a small rate it would need to receive a very large amount of immigration.
Spain 50 million? 46 million
Sudan 39 million? 43 million
There are some exceptions like the UK and the numbers for China are mostly sinking because of their countermeasures against their exploding population, but over all population growth seems to be inversely proportional to wealth