Is there any mistake with the rural population in the global population?

Every day leaders in our country are talking about caste census. Meanwhile, a shocking revelation has been made about the population of humans on earth.

A study published in the journal Nature Communications claims that the global population is undercounted and billions of people are not included.

What will be the human population in the year 2080?

According to the estimates of the United Nations, the current human population in the world is around 8.2 billion (820 crores) and it is estimated that by the middle of the year 2080, this number will reach 10 billion (1 thousand crores).

However, researchers at Aalto University in Finland found that these estimates undercount the rural population. Between 1975 and 2010, the figure could be anywhere from 53 to 84 percent.

Irregularities in counting rural population

Josias Lang-Ritter, a PhD scholar associated with the study, said, "For the first time, our study provides evidence that a significant portion of the rural population may be missing from global population data sets." He said that these datasets have been used in thousands of studies.

Ritter said, rural population has not been evaluated properly. For this study, the researchers have analyzed the five most widely used global population datasets (WorldPop, GWP, GRUMP, LandScan and GHS-POP).

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