B11

The United Nations (UN) has published its prediction about the size and age of the world’s population three hundred years from now. This report can help environmental scientists and policy-makers to understand dramatic changes in the world’s population in the future.

 SCIENCE

B12

The report suggests that if the birth rates stay the same, there’ll be a huge expansion of the global population.

 GLOBE

B13

You may think it is impossible but three centuries from now there may be over one hundred and thirty trillion people.

 POSSIBLE

B14

The report says that the world’s population is likely to be significantly older. The average age will be fifty while today it is twenty six.

SIGNIFICANT

B15

Almost a quarter of all the inhabitants of the planet will live in Africa.

 INHABIT

B16

Researchers think that India, China and the United States will continue to be countries with the biggest population.

 RESEARCH