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By 2050, 17% of the world’s population will be over 65. Policy changes need to start now.
That was up from 2,300 in 1950. Old folks rule — at the ballot box The world is now home to an estimated 722,000 centenarians ...
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As the theme of this year’s World Population Day reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions, and driving progress. So is finance.
China's population falls for a third consecutive year
Indian security forces gunned down 31 Maoist rebels in the forests of country's central state of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, police said, in its biggest encounter this year.
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Population growth, environmental degradation and climate change
On 23 February, the new report will be launched at the Future of the World Global Policy Dialogues: The Future of Population Growth kicking off at 8:30 a.m. EST. This event will be discussing the ...
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Census charts and maps
The nation’s Hispanic population topped 50 million after accounting for more than half of the nation’s overall population growth over the past decade, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.
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Factors affecting birth rates and death rates
The population of the world was relatively low and steady until the 1950s when there was a population ‘explosion’. Since then, there has been a rapid increase in the world’s population so ...