World Population Growth Stabilization Advocated by 2025

World population is growing more slowly than in recent years and with a concerted effort to defuse a “demographic time bomb” population could stabilize at 8 billion by 2025, an advocacy group said Friday.

Werner Fornos, president of the Washington-based institute, said the world’s population is growing by almost 90 million annually, more slowly than the 100 million growth of recent years.

The world’s population is nearing 5.9 billion, and will be over 6 billion by the year 2000. But he said it was “a dream and a possibility” to stabilize the population at 8 billion by 2025 “if we keep doing what works.”