Demography

ISSUES

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.

NEWS

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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...

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

The Continuing Challenge of Demographics

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

FOCUS

Comprendre Copenhague : la surpopulation

Il y aura sept milliards d’humains sur Terre d’ici 2012, soit deux fois plus que dans les années 1960 : ceux qui sont nés après la Deuxième guerre mondiale ans sont la seule génération de l’histoire à avoir vu la...

VIDEOS

01/12/2009

Qui va payer la facture de notre mode de vie? Une amusante métaphore des...

06/03/2009

En Asie, il manque désormais 163 millions de femmes. Ce, à cause des...

GREEN TIPS

Improving health through education

In 2004 in Ethiopia, a women's education program was led by the Red Cross International Committee (Comité...

INDICATORS

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

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