FIGURE 2. Forecasted distributions of world population sizes (fractiles).

From the following article:

The end of world population growth

Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov

Nature 412, 543-545(2 August 2001)

doi:10.1038/35087589

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For comparison, the United Nations medium scenario (white line), and 95 per cent interval as given by the NRC11 on the basis of an ex post error analysis (vertical line in 2050) are also given.

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