研究：世界人口将在2064年达到峰值后开始下降_BEC初级作文

研究：世界人口将在2064年达到峰值后开始下降

这篇7月14日发表在《柳叶刀》上的模拟研究还预测，印度和中国等国的劳动年龄人口将剧减。

But as fertility declines, researchers note that immigration could offset population shrinkage, particularly in countries with low fertility, such as the US, Australia and Canada.

随着生育率的下降，研究人员指出，移民可以抵消人口缩水，尤其是在生育率低的美国、澳大利亚和加拿大等国家。

"The world, since the 1960s, has been really focused on the so-called population explosion," Dr Christopher Murray, who led the research, told cnn. "Suddenly, we're now seeing this sort of turning point where it is very clear that we are rapidly transitioning from the issue of too many people to too few."

这项研究的领头人克里斯多夫·穆雷博士告诉美国有线电视资讯网说：“自从20世纪60年代以来，世界一直在关注所谓的人口大爆炸。突然间，我们发现了这一转折点，显然我们正在从人太多的问题迅速过渡到人太少的问题。”

Using data from Global Burden of Disease study 2017, researchers predicted that the fastest-shrinking populations will be in Asia and eastern and central Europe.

运用2017年全球疾病负担研究的数据，研究人员预测人口减少最快的地方将是亚洲、东欧和中欧。

The report authors project that the population of Japan will shrink from around 128 million people in 2017 to 60 million in 2100, Thailand will see a shrink from 71 to 35 million, Spain from 46 to 23 million, Italy from 61 to 31 million, Portugal from 11 to 5 million, and South Korea from 53 to 27 million.