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Decline in innovation. A falling population also lowers the rate of innovation, since change tends to come from younger workers and entrepreneurs. [10] Strain on mental health. Population decline may harm a population's mental health (or morale) if it causes permanent recession and a concomitant decline in basic services and infrastructure. [12]
Currently, 757 million humans live in the 101 largest cities; [40] these cities are home to 11% of the world's population. [40] By the end of the century, the world population is projected to grow, with estimates ranging from 6.9 billion to 13.1 billion; [40] the percentage of people living in the 101 largest cities is estimated to be 15% to 23 ...
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
It is also a natural biological phenomenon: The world’s population has tripled in the last 70 years—and will settle into a new dynamic equilibrium as limitations are reached, with an expected ...
World population milestones went unnoticed until the 20th century, since there was no reliable data on global population ... from a population decline to 3.2 billion ...
HONG KONG — China said Tuesday that its population declined last year for the first time in six decades, a historic shift with profound implications for the world’s second-largest economy ...
New data predicts population decline after 2080. The U.S. population is expected to stop growing by 2080 as deaths will begin to outpace birth rates and immigration, new data from the Census ...
Californians for Population Stabilization; Center for Biological Diversity; Earth Policy Institute; National Commission for the Observance of World Population Year 1974; Negative Population Growth; NumbersUSA; Population Action International; Population Balance; Population Connection (called Zero Population Growth until 2002) Population Council