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Are you really surprised that predictions 70 years into the future are not highly accurate? When you look at the 2004 report, then well we are below the high prediction, but above the mid case. So if the current forecast is of similar quality, then we would indeed have been past peak birth for the next 20 years or so.
In the 2004 report the UN got fertility rates in Africa wrong, believing they would drop much faster then they did. They also though AIDS would be worse then it actually was.
Oh and UN predictions go with a peak around 2070-80 or so since the 90s.
mmmm. I read your previous as "do your really believe we are not at peak". going back today I see its not the case so that is why I answered the way I did. I thought you were saying the predictions were accurate.