Demography

ISSUES

Demography

In 1800, the planet had a little less than one billion inhabitants between 1800 and 1925, the population doubled, due notably to advances in medicine and sanitation over the course of this period (decrease of infant mortality and increase of life expectancy). The world population then increased from 4 billion in 1975 to 6 billion in 1999 then to 6.6 billion in 2008 [see debate].
Sustainable slowdown ?

Population growth reached its highest level in the 1990s with the increase of 82 million individuals per year. The numbers report an annual growth of 70 million in 2007 (Lester R. Brown, Plan B). The average number of children passed from 6 per woman in 1960 to about 3 today. It could reach two children per woman in the coming decades, just at the level of population renewal. According to the predictions of the United Nations, the world population will reach about 9 billion by the year 2050 then will stabilize.

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DEBATES

Too Many People, Too Much Consumption

Paul et Anne Ehrlich

Over some 60 million years, Homo sapiens has evolved into the dominant animal on the planet, acquiring binocular vision, upright...

The P-Bomb

Throughout the world, people are making fewer and fewer...

The Continuing Challenge of Demographics

“I used to laugh at the guilty conscience of physicists...

INITIATIVE

Le temps presse pour les Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement

C’est en 2003, alors qu’il est à Genève pour la promotion d’un film publicitaire pour le Programme des Nations Unies pour le

VIDEOS

09/06/2010	La nouvelle constitution qui sera soumise à référendum en juin 2010 au...	04/05/2010	Près de 33 000 enfants et adolescents démobilisés entre 2004 et 2009, 90%...
27/04/2010	In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive....	19/04/2010	It is another corn harvesting season in Pailin, a province in northwestern...

GREEN TIPS

Educate to Protect

Since 2001, all primary school students in the State of Colima, on the north pacific coast of Mexico, have...

INDICATORS

Population
Undernourishment
Urban population
Ratio of richest 10% to poorest 10%
Gender gap

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