The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to US Census Bureau estimates released Monday. The 0.9% ...
He is right, up to a point. The concentration of world income in the wealthiest quintile (fifth) of the world's population is indeed shocking and cannot meet any plausible test of legitimacy. The ...
and by 2050 about 66 per cent of the world population will be living in cities. These megatrends have far-reaching implications. They affect economic development, employment, income distribution ...
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 ...
The World Marriage Data 2019 provides a comparable ... The database contains data on four key indicators: the distribution of the population by marital status, the proportion currently married ...
But the population of the world is expanding unevenly ... is projected to rise from 10% this year to 16% in 2050. Again the distribution will be unequal with some countries, in East Asia and ...