{"id":49430,"date":"2022-10-18T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/oct\/18\/global-population-growth-8-billion-unfdp-united-nations-warning-alarmism"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:00:42","slug":"un-warns-against-alarmism-as-worlds-population-reaches-8bn-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49430","title":{"rendered":"UN warns against alarmism as world\u2019s population reaches 8bn milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNFPA head urges countries to focus on helping women, children and marginalised people most vulnerable to demographic change<\/p>\n<p>The world must not engage in \u201cpopulation alarmism\u201d as the number of people living on Earth nears 8 billion, a senior UN official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The global population is projected to reach that milestone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/desa\/world-population-reach-8-billion-15-november-2022\">on 15 November<\/a>, with some commentators expressing worries about the impact of the growing number on a world already struggling with huge inequality, the climate crisis, and conflict-fuelled displacement and migration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/oct\/18\/global-population-growth-8-billion-unfdp-united-nations-warning-alarmism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNFPA head urges countries to focus on helping women, children and marginalised people most vulnerable to demographic changeThe world must not engage in \u201cpopulation alarmism\u201d as the number of people living on Earth nears 8 billion, a senior UN official&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,566,62,640,706,1539,79,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-migration-and-development","category-population","category-reproductive-rights","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49431,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49430\/revisions\/49431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}