{"id":50244,"date":"2022-11-15T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/15\/i-cant-give-up-on-hope-as-the-worlds-population-passes-8bn-new-parents-from-italy-to-india-look-to-the-future"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T06:00:17","slug":"i-cant-give-up-on-hope-as-the-worlds-population-passes-8bn-new-parents-from-italy-to-india-look-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50244","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t give up on hope\u2019: As the world\u2019s population passes 8bn, new parents from Italy to India look to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Siena, Luisa worries about social media. In Delhi, Nikita is trying to proof her house against air pollution. Here, couples who have welcomed a new child in recent months share their dreams and fears for them on an ever more crowded planet<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 15 November marks the day that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/ng-interactive\/2022\/nov\/14\/how-has-the-worlds-population-grown-since-1950\">the global population is projected to reach 8 billion<\/a>, according to the United Nations \u2013 meaning the number of people in the world has more than tripled in the past 70 years. The impact of this is far-reaching, putting additional pressure on already stretched resources and challenging efforts to reduce poverty and inequality.<\/p>\n<p>The average woman now gives birth to two children, down from five in 1950. We spoke to parents around the world who have welcomed a new child in recent months about their hopes and fears for their family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/15\/i-cant-give-up-on-hope-as-the-worlds-population-passes-8bn-new-parents-from-italy-to-india-look-to-the-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Siena, Luisa worries about social media. In Delhi, Nikita is trying to proof her house against air pollution. Here, couples who have welcomed a new child in recent months share their dreams and fears for them on an ever more crowded planetTuesday 15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[401,452,2340,50,59,62,451,56,400,757,706,1457,1933,52,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-brazil","category-childbirth","category-china","category-global-development","category-india","category-italy","category-new-zealand","category-nigeria","category-parents-and-parenting","category-population","category-tanzania","category-uganda","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50245,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244\/revisions\/50245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}