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White Christians are now a minority of the U.S. population, survey says
The share of Americans who identify as white and Christian has dropped below 50 percent, a transformation fueled by immigration and by growing numbers of people who reject organized religion altogether, according to a new survey released Wednesday. Christians overall remain a large majority in the U.S., at nearly 70 percent of Americans. However, white Christians, once predominant in the country’s religious life, now comprise only 43 percent of the population...
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China's Shanghai sets population limit at 25 million to avoid ‘big city disease’
Financial hub and port city will also limit land available for construction in bid to tackle pollution and shortage of services
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Sprawl and Wild Habitats Are on a Collision Course
By 2030, the world is expected to add another billion people or so, bringing the total population to roughly 8.5 billion. And with humans becoming increasingly urban, sprawl will only get worse, taking up precious space that wild birds, mammals, plants, and the like can still call home.
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Red squirrel numbers boosted by predator
Why red squirrel numbers are boosted by the activity of their natural predator, the pine marten.
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'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades'
Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge. By Damian Carrington.
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Lithuania deserves better life - The Baltic Word
The latest expressive headlines on delfi.lt (the main Lithuanian news portal) such as “Gender pay gap increased in Lithuania”, “Sudden drop in EU support pushes Lithuania into middle income trap, finmin says”, “Lithuanian travellers spent EUR 186.5 mln abroad this year” and “Lithuania’s Jan-May budget revenue EUR 14.3 mln below target” clearly demonstrate difficult situation in the country. The only positive thing in this fact is Lithuanian authorities do not…
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Dozens Of Dying Villages In Northern Kazakhstan To Be 'Liquidated'
Dozens of depopulated villages in a Kazakh province bordering Russia will be "liquidated" and their residents moved to larger towns, a senior government official says.
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'Remarkable' global decline in fertility rates
Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a "baby bust" - meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size. The researchers said the findings were a "huge surprise", and there would be profound consequences for societies with "more grandparents than grandchildren". The study, published in the Lancet, followed trends in every country from 1950 to 2017.
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We All Have Moments of Forgetfulness, But........
Well ok, forgetfulness may not be something to joke about. Or is it? I guess it depends on the person and the to the degree we forget things. For most of the population to forget things is an every day annoyance.
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Americans aren't making enough babies to replace ourselves
Americans are having fewer and fewer babies, a new government report finds. In fact, we now aren’t making enough babies to replace ourselves. For the population to reproduce itself at current numbers, the “total fertility rate” needs to be 2,100 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age over their lifetime, researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in their report, released early Thursday. But the latest data show a current rate of just 1,765.5 per 1,000, or 16 percent below the number needed to keep the population stable without additions through immigration.
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Social uncertainty weakens Latvia - The Baltic Word
Opinion - Social uncertainty weakens Latvia The latest data of the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) show that at the beginning of 2018 population of Latvia accounted for 1 million 934 thousand, which is 15.7 thousand people fewer than a year ago.
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The World Might Actually Run Out of People
You know the story. Despite technologies, regulations, and policies to make humanity less of a strain on the earth, people just won’t stop reproducing. By 2050 there will be 9 billion carbon-burning, plastic-polluting, calorie-consuming people on the planet. By 2100, that number will balloon to 11 billion, pushing society into a Soylent Green scenario. Such dire population predictions aren’t the stuff of sci-fi; those numbers come from one of the most trusted world authorities, the United Nations.
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Japan Aims To Automate All Convenience Stores By 2025 With A New RFID Technology
Japan is one of the countries that are facing a serious shrinkage of population. There were 125 million people as of 2000, and the number is expect to go down to 88 million in 2065, due to a declining birth rate. Japan is also a unique country that relies heavily on convenience stores, which are called “konbini”. There are 55,743 convenience stores as of December 2018, according to the Japan Franchise Association and the number has been solidly increasing since 1970s.
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The U.S. Now Has More Millionaires Than Sweden Has People
The number of wealthy households in the U.S. reached a new high last year, roughly equivalent to the entire population of Sweden or Portugal. More than 10.2 million households had a net worth of $1 million to $5 million, not including the value of their primary residence, according to a survey by the Spectrem Group. That’s up 2.5 percent from 2017.
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Deep Dish: Why Worry about Global Population Decline?
The world's population is expected to peak and then decline this century, reshaping everything from economic growth and immigration to government spending and climate change.
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India's population growth slows substantially, may 'no longer be pressing problem'
There’s heartening news on an age-old Indian problem. A report released by the United Nations Population Fund earlier this month indicates that India’s population growth rate has slowed substantially in the 2010-2019 period. According to the report, India’s population may have grown at .4 percentage points lower in the 2010-2019 period as compared to the decade between 2001 and 2011.
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World population growth is expected to nearly stop by 2100
For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century.
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People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows
A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society's institutions and capitalism, according to a long-running global survey. The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer - now in its 20th year - has found many people no longer believe working hard will give them a better life. Despite strong economic performance, a majority of respondents in every developed market do not believe they will be better off in five years' time.
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One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study
The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the global temperature.
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This Century Will See Massive Shifts in the Global Population, Economy, and Power Structure
A lot of the predictions we hear about the future involve a hot, crowded planet, one where we need some serious science to figure out how to feed everyone and control rising global temperatures. The UN’s population forecast of almost 10 billion people by 2050 is widely quoted, and with it has come much conjecture about what such a world will look like. Where will all those people live? What kind of jobs will they have? What will they eat?
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