I-UN: Inani labemi behlabathi liza kufikelela kwinani leebhiliyoni ezisibhozo kulo nyaka

Ngokwengxelo yeZizwe eziManyeneyo 'yeWorld Population Prospects 2022' ekhutshwe namhlanje, abantu behlabathi banokufikelela kwiibhiliyoni ezisibhozo phakathi kuNovemba ka-2022.

Iiprojekthi zengxelo ye-UN ukuba abemi behlabathi baya kwanda baye malunga ne-8.5 yezigidigidi ngo-2030, baye kwi-9.7 yezigidigidi ngo-2050 kunye ne-10.4 yezigidigidi ngo-2100.

Abemi behlabathi bayanda ngenxa yokuncipha kokubhubha kwabantu, kunye nexesha lokuphila kwihlabathi liphela lifikelela kwiminyaka engama-72.8 ngo-2019, eliphantse libe yiminyaka elithoba kunoko belinjalo ngo-1990, nangona isantya sokukhula sisihla kancinci ngoku, uphando lwe-UN lwathi.

Inani labantu liya kwanda ngokungafaniyo kwihlabathi liphela, UN iprojekthi yeengcali, nge Indiya ukogqitha i-China njengelona lizwe linabantu abaninzi kwihlabathi ngo-2023 kunye neDemocratic Republic of the Congo, i-Egypt, i-Ethiopia, iNigeria, iPakistan, iiPhilippines kunye neTanzania ezithatha ngaphezu kwesiqingatha sokukhula okulindelekileyo.

Ngokutsho kukaNobhala-Jikelele weZizwe Ezimanyeneyo u-Antonio Guterres, isiganeko esizibhiliyoni ezisibhozo “sisikhumbuzo sembopheleleko yethu ekwabelwana ngayo yokunyamekela isijikelezi-langa sethu.”

Umhlaba usakhathazwa kukungalingani okukhulu ngokwesini kunye nokuhlaselwa kwamalungelo abasetyhini kunye nobhubhani we-COVID-19 wehlabathi, ingxaki yemozulu, iimfazwe kunye neentlekele zoluntu zibonise ukuba umhlaba "usemngciphekweni," wongeze watsho uGuterres.

UNobhala Jikelele weZizwe Ezimanyeneyo wathi: “Ukufikelela kubemi behlabathi abazibhiliyoni ezisibhozo kuyinto ephawulekayo, kodwa kufuneka sigxile ebantwini.