Population boom

[Anomalocaris]

So anyone care to take on where population will go in the next 200 years?

As society developed from subsistence to leisured affluence, people put off having children and death rate begins to approach now diminished birth rate, so population levels off.

If wealth continues to spread around the world (on the whole there are lot more people in the world reaching leisured affluence each year than dropping back to subsistence poverty) eventually diminished birth rate will spread to all continents and human population as a whole will level off.