Mega Trends 2012 and their Impacts
Mega Trends 2012 and their Impacts Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
Jan 08, 2012 – 08:37 AM
By: Colin_Twiggs
To arrive at an outlook for the year ahead we first need to analyze the big trends that endure for decades and in some cases even longer.
Population growth and food resources
The number one dynamic over the last century has been the exponential rise in global population. It took 123 years for the world population to grow from 1 to 2 billion (by 1927) and only 12 years to grow from 5 to 6 billion (by 1999). Growth, however, is now slowing and we are predicted to rise from the current 7 billion to a peak of 9 billion in the 2050s.
