republic of belarus valery kovalkov deputy minister of labor and social protection, belarus anastasia bobrova headof the center for human development and demography of the institute of economics of the national academy of sciences of belarus candidate of economic sciences associate professor, dear guests. good evening good evening anastasia grigorievna a. how is the demographic changing? situation in the world? what trends are observed in various countries of the world, just from 8 billion, about which we heard in the plot here, uh, the population remains yes, well, the structure of the population is much more important, because we see an uneven distribution of the population, and the population does not strange, but also by region and what we are seeing. now we have a very high number in the countries of africa, asia, indonesia, and this trend of the next 20-30 years is a rather short period, which helps us to think about how we will live and the world will develop further and, uh, there are forecasts that allow, uh, to make such estimates that in 2050, 50% of the world's population, it will just