A Greener Global Workforce

Jobs generated through spending on clean energy versus fossil-fuel production

                                                       Large-Scale Fossil-Fuel-Producing Countries
                   Clean-energy jobs            Fossil-fuel jobs                 Jobs increase through clean-energy
Countries        per $1 million                  per $1 million                     spending relative to fossil fuels
Brazil                  37.1                                21.2                                         +75%

China                133.1                               74.4                                          +79%

India                 261.9                              129.1                                        +103%

Indonesia           99.1                                22.0                                         +350%

South Africa      70.6                                33.1                                         +113%

United States      8.7                                   3.7                                         +135%

Large-Scale Fossil-Fuel-Importing Countries
                                  Clean-energy jobs
Countries                       per $1 million
Germany                               9.7

South Korea                       14.6

Spain                                  13.4

The chart shows that in the fossil-fuel producing countries, spending $1 million on clean-energy jobs produces far more jobs than spending the same amount on fossil-fuel jobs; also, it shows that the United States generates far fewer jobs per spending $1 million than do the comparison counties. (Source: Greening the Global Economy, found in The Nation, November 16, 2015).

ADDENDUM:
"According to the 2015 Revision, the world today has 7.3 billion inhabitants and a 95-percent chance of having between 9.5 billion and 13.3 million in 2100." "The medium variant of the  2015  Revision projects a world population of 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050." "To achieve the medium variant, fertility in the least developed countries has to decrease from its current 4.20 children per woman in 2025-2030 and to 2.87 in 2045-2050." [1]

"Africa's share of the world population will rise from 16 percent in 2015 to 25 percent in 2050." "More than any other region, therefore, Africa will face the challenges of educating ever-increasing numbers of children and of generating jobs for ever-increasing numbers of young people." [2]

'The wild lion population has declined 43 percent over 21 years, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, to fewer than 20,000 lions." "Africa's human population, meanwhile, is the fastest growing in the world. In roughly the same period as the lion decline, the number of Africans has nearly doubled to 1.2 billion people.At that point, one  out of every four humans will live in Africa." "In West Africa, lions are now confined to less than 1 percent of the 4.5 million square miles of sparsely furnished land where they used to roam." [3]

Footnotes
[1] Harria Zlotnick, "Future World Population," Population Connection, October 2015.

[2] Ibid.

[3] "Human Population Boom Remains Largest Threat to Africa's Lions in Wake of Cecil's Killinga" Same as above.