South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world—and that doesn't bode well for its economy
Around the world, nations are looking at the prospect of shrinking, aging populations—but none more so than South Korea.
Around the world, nations are looking at the prospect of shrinking, aging populations—but none more so than South Korea.
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2023
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In November 2022, the world crossed a milestone of 8 billion people, but a new analysis suggests the global population could peak just below 9 billion people in 2050 then start falling.
Environment
Mar 27, 2023
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Niger, a landlocked country in the dry Sahel region of Africa, struggles to feed its 25 million people. It currently ranks 115th out of 121 countries on the Global Hunger Index, and the number of people not getting enough ...
Economics & Business
Feb 27, 2023
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The transition to agriculture from hunting and gathering in pre-colonial North America led to changes in age-independent mortality, or mortality caused by factors that are not associated with age, according to a new study ...
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2023
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China's National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected—that 2022 was the year China's population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought ...
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2023
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Today is the Day of Eight Billion, according to the United Nations.
Environment
Nov 15, 2022
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India will surpass China as the country with the world's largest population in 2023, according to the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 report.
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2022
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More than 1.1 billion people live in Sub-Saharan Africa today, and this number is expected to double by 2050. Yet many governments in the region struggle with providing sufficient schools, hospitals, food and clean water ...
Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2022
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Scientific literature has considered human population trends as "slow," with fertility and mortality driving long term changes that are fully appreciable in generation-long periods, but the current exodus from war-ridden ...
Social Sciences
Jun 1, 2022
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A team of researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute working with a group at the American Museum of Natural History has found evidence of a change in human DNA after diverging from other primates that has made humans more ...