23 December 2010

Society for all ages
Myrepublica.com - Nepal
Over the past few years, the world´s population has continued on its remarkable transition from a state of high birth and death rates to one characterized by low birth and death rates. (...)According to the Population Division of United Nations, it is estimated that one out of every 10 persons is now 60 years or above; by 2050, one out of five will be 60 years or older; and by 2150, one out of three persons will be 60 years or older.…(23 December 2010)

16 December 2010


Population 7 Billion

National Geographic Magazine - US
Sometime in late 2011, according to the UN Population Division, there will be seven billion of us. (...) UN demographers consider the middle road their best estimate: They now project that the population may reach nine billion before 2050—in 2045. …(January 2011)
Indicus Analytics: Baby steps on fertility
Business Standard - India
According to the United Nations Population Division’s projections, by one estimate of constant fertility rate, India’s population is set to exceed that of China in 2022; using a lower fertility assumption, this year is pushed ahead to 2029. ,…(16 December 2010)

15 December 2010

UN's world population estimates raise questions on sustainability
Digital Journal - US
As human population figures worldwide are continuing to reflect widespread growth, the United Nations recently released a 240 page report that examines and projects trends over a wide period of time from 1950 to 2300. By 2050, according the UN Population Division analysis, there could be anywhere from 8 billion of us at the low end of the projection to 10.5 billion at the high end. …(14 January 2010)

13 December 2010

Bucking trend, Bolivia lowers retirement age to 58
Boston Globe - USA
Bolivia's average life expectancy is 68 years for women and 63 years for men, according to the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Population Division. The division puts the global average at 68 for both sexes, with western Europe at 80 and Latin America at 73.…(13 December 2010)

10 December 2010

Vertical farming: Does it really stack up?
The Economist - UK
According to the UN’s Population Division, by 2050 around 70% of the world’s population will be living in urban areas. So it just makes sense, he says, to move farms closer to where everyone will be living.
(9 December 2010)

01 December 2010

Can India garner the demographic dividend?
The Hindu - India
The United Nations Population Division projections show that, while in absolute numbers the youth segment (15-34 years) of the Indian population tapers off after 2030, as a proportion to the total population it tapers off from 2010 itself.,…(1 December 2010)

22 November 2010

Brunei hosts Asean Meet on elderly needs
Borneo Bulletin - Brunei Darussalam
Brunei Darussalam has over the years given much priority and attention to its youth, which it has labelled as valuable assets, and more recently to the women and children of the country. However, yesterday, another equally important thematic group became the focus of the country's future welfare plans - its senior citizens. It has been projected that by the year 2025, the number of senior citizens in the country are expected to reach 35,000, according to the United Nations Population Division. … (21 November 2010)

08 November 2010

Phillip Longman: A new look at an aging world
Dallas News - US
The world's population will increase by roughly one-third over the next 40 years, from 6.9 billion to 9.1 billion, according to the U.N. Population Division. But this will be a very different kind of population growth than ever before – driven not by birth rates, which have plummeted around the world, but primarily by an increase in the number of elderly people. (5 November 2010)

21 October 2010

Infant deaths report grim reading
News24 - South Africa

According to a table of indicators contained in the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) "State of World Population 2010" report, released on Wednesday, infant mortality in South Africa is 43 per 1 000 live births. The rates in Botswana and Namibia are 32 and 30 respectively. Other Southern African neighbours have higher rates of infant deaths: 65 per 1 000 live births in Lesotho; 83 in Mozambique; 59 in Swaziland; and 51 in Zimbabwe. The report says the data estimates are for this year, and the source is the UN's Population Division (UNPD). (20 Oct. 2010)

13 October 2010

Lies, Damn Lies, and Population Statistics
Wall Street Journal - USA
Mr. Meotti wrote that Italy's fertility rate is at the "lowest low": 1.3 children per woman. According to the Italian National Statistical Institute (Istat), that rate is 1.41 children per woman, and has been rising since the mid-90s, when it was at 1.19 children per woman. The op-ed also reports that Italy's under-five population made up 9% of the country in 1975. Our numbers show this figure was actually 8%. Further, according to our data, this age group counted for 4.7% of the population on Jan. 1, 2009, not 4.2%. Mr. Meotti cites the U.N.'s Population Division to forecast a drop in this age group to 2.8% by 2050, though according to our data they will be 4.2%, while Eurostat predicts 3.9%.

(22 September 2010)
Nigeria: Golden Jubilee - What Hope for Education for All in 2015?
AllAfrica.com - USA (story originally published in This Day - Lagos)
Findings by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (UNPD), on the effort of governments worldwide towards reducing the number of out-of-school children revealed that the number of primary-school-age children that were not in school fell by 2 million worldwide between 2005 and 2006. (28 September 2010)
Global doors slam shut on immigrants
Christian Science Monitor - USA
The United Nations Population Division (UNDP) estimates that the world has about 200 million international migrants. If they created their own country, it would become the fifth largest in the world.,…(9 October 2010)
In India, even Indians can be 'foreigners'
Christian Science Monitor - USA - Mexico
The United Nations Population Division estimates that 740 million people are internal migrants – almost four times as many as those who have moved internationally.…(9 October 2010)
Think Again: Global Aging
Foreign Policy - USA
It's true that the world's population overall will increase by roughly one-third over the next 40 years, from 6.9 to 9.1 billion, according to the U.N. Population Division. But this will be a very different kind of population growth than ever before -- driven not by birth rates, which have plummeted around the world, but primarily by an increase in the number of elderly people. Indeed, the global population of children under 5 is expected to fall by 49 million as of midcentury, while the number of people over 60 will grow by 1.2 billion.
(November 2010)
Population shifts 'substantially influence' emissions
BBC News - UK

"If global population growth slows down, it is not going to solve the climate problem," said lead author Brian O'Neill, a scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (Ncar)."But it can make a contribution, especially in the long-term." According to the UN Population Division, the average annual global growth rate peaked at just over 2.0% between 1965 and 1970.
Since then, it has been steadily falling and currently stands at about 1.1%. By 2050, the UN projects that it will have fallen to an estimated 0.3%.
,…(12 October 2010)

01 October 2010

Macau may fall short of UNESCO goals
Macau Daily Times - Macau

National and international population estimates are often based on the same source of demographic data, such as a recent census, household survey or demographic study. However, they are not necessarily calculated according to the same methodology. “To avoid this pitfall, the UIS [UNESCO Institute of Statistics] uses population estimates from the United Nations Population Division, which are based on a single, reliable methodology that is internationally accepted.”
,…(1 October 2010)

27 September 2010

Figures of population growth
Financial Express - Bangladesh
The estimate of the United Nations (UN) Population Division is also very close to the PRB figures. Thus, the dependable independent estimation of population trends in Bangladesh only point to the fact ,…(27 September 2010)

20 September 2010

Dounreay nuclear staff look to the future
BBC - UK
Population rates will have declined and then started to rise again by 2300, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division. Polar bears could be extinct within the next 100 years say scientists It has projected that the number of people in the world will peak at 9.22 billion in 2075.After reaching this maximum, world population will decline slightly and then increase slowly to reach 8.97 billion by 2300. (17 September 2010)

17 September 2010

7 Countries that Could Crash in Five Years
Street Authority - US
Japan serves as a prime example of the demographic time bomb. According to the United Nations' Population Division, Japanese households are having an average of 1.4 children (well below the 2.1 replacement rate), and when this is coupled with restrictive immigration policies, it has led to a steadily rising average age in Japan. Japan's life expectancy, already among the highest in the world at 83 years, could approach 90 in the next few decades, according to the U.N. (16 September 2010)

07 September 2010

Not a new issue
The Star - Malayasia

In May 2000, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly decided to convene the Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002. The 2002 event included the publication of a report, World Population Ageing 1950-2050, which provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators of the ageing process by development regions, major areas, regions and countries. Here are the findings highlighted in the UN’s Population Division website
,…(4 September 2010)
Italia: R.I.P.
Wall Street Journal - US
Today, these bambinis make up only 4.2% of the population. Young children are disappearing from Italy. According to the UN's Population Division, ...7 September 2010)

16 August 2010

Birthday finds Social Security rickety at 75
Hernando Today/Tampa Tribune - US

...Couple that with projections by the United Nations' Population Division that by 2030, there will be only 2.6 workers paying into Social Security for every man or woman receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits compared with 4.1 workers per retiree in 2000; and the picture of the future begins to look bleak. (14 August 2010)
In 100 years we’ll be a fully urban species
Deccan Chronicle - India

The population of the world’s countryside will stop growing around 2019, according to the UN Population Division’s more conservative estimates, and by 2050 will have fallen by 600 million because of migration to the city. India’s rural population, one of the last to stop growing, is set to peak in 2025 at 909 million, and shrink to 743 million by 2050...(16 August 2010)

11 August 2010

South and the Third World
Guardian - UK
Let's start with one obvious index of social well being, infant mortality rates. The international numbers below are from the UN Population Division, the state numbers from the Kaiser Foundation.…(10 August 2010)

10 August 2010

A Weakened but Resourceful Iran
Council on Foreign Relations - US
A third reason is that Iran has had, in the early years after the revolution, very, very rapid population growth. [According to the UN's Population Division, Iran's population rose from thirty-nine million in 1980 to nearly seventy-one million in 2005.] ,…(9 August 2010)

09 August 2010

Is Ahmadinejad Instigating a Demographic Catastrophe?
Huffington Post - US
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J. (2002). "Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran", Completing the Fertility Transition, United Nations, Population Division, New York, pp. 425-439.
,…(31 July 2010)
ICCI demands rainwater harvesting
Pakistan Observer - Pakistan
ICCI President Zahid Maqbool said the recent monsoon rains have caused heavy floods and destruction of great number of human and physical infrastructure. He said that had there been proper system of rain harvesting, these damages would have been minimized to sufficient extent. Pakistan’s population is growing fast as UN’s Population Division has projected that Pakistan will overtake Brazil and Indonesia by 2050. It would become the fourth largest populated country in the world, almost doubling to 335 million from its current more than 170 million, he added.…(6 August 2010)
What a Strong Yen Means for U.S. Investors -- and How to Profit
Street Authority - USA
The demographic data are sobering. According to the U.N.'s Population Division, Japanese households are having an average of 1.4 children (well below the 2.1 replacement rate), and when coupled with restrictive immigration policies, it has led to a steadily rising average age. Roughly 20% of Japan's population is 65 or older. By 2050, that figure should rise to 37%, according to the U.N.,…(4 August 2010)

29 July 2010


For millions across the world, home is someplace else

The Times of India - India
The total number of international migrants is estimated to touch 214 million this year, that is, about three per cent of the world’s population, according to the UN Population Division. …(17 July 2010)

19 July 2010

Senior UN official highlights role of good census before World Population Day
Xinhuanet.com - China"
If one is not counted, one doesn't count," a senior UN official has told Xinhua in an interview on the occasion of the forthcoming World Population Day (WPD), observed on Sunday. Hania Zlotnik, director of the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), was referring to the theme of this year's WPD -- Everyone counts. ,…(10 July 2010)
Population Trends Affect Realization of World Anti-Poverty Goals
Crienglish.com- China
"We have good evidence that countries that have been able over the last 30 years to reduce their fertility considerably are doing much better in obtaining the MDGS than countries that still have relatively high fertility," said Hania Zlotnik, director of the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)...(11 July 2010)

10 June 2010

Booming population bringing key changes
Daily Youmiuri - Japan
The world today is facing diverse environmental challenges as our societies go through drastic changes, according to Bjorn Stigson, president of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD). (...) According to a projection by the United Nations Population Division, the world's population will be 9.2 billion by 2050, a 33 percent increase over what it is today. …(10 June 2010)

01 June 2010

In Hu's China, this baby doesn't exist
The Australian - Australia

By the medium-variant projections of the UN Population Division, the 15- to 64-year-old group will be roughly 25 million persons smaller in 2035 than it is today, and by 2035 it would be dropping at a tempo of about 0.7 per cent per year.
,…(29 May 2010)
Global economic downturn has not blunted migration
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - USA

Hania Zlotnik, director of the U.N. Population Division, said, "Worldwide, the crisis has slowed the growth of migration, but the number of migrants is still increasing."
,…(31 May 2010)

12 May 2010

The world has become a city
Le Monde Diplomatique - France
According to United Nations Population Division estimates, the rate of global urbanisation will increase considerably in coming decades, reaching 59.7% in ...(May 2010)

05 May 2010

Dealt some duff cards, but the welcome is warm
East Anglian Daily Times - UK
Organisations offer slightly different statistics, but they’re all dreadful. The United Nations Population Division ranks Sierra Leone worst of 195 countries, with 160 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. …(4 May 2010)

03 May 2010

Fewer Indians adopted by rich world now
>The Times of India - India
Geopolitical changes have radically altered the preferences of prospective foster parents' in the developed world and the last 30 years have seen India move from second to the seventh most preferred country to supply children to the childless rich. These are some of the findings of an analysis of adoption trends across 195 countries by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Population Division. ,…(2 May 2010)
Our position on labour migration, by TUC
Daily Sun - Nigeria
The United Nations (UN) Population Division puts the figure of international migrants in Asia at 33 million in 2005, about half of whom are working. ,…(3 May 2010)

13 April 2010

Harper Conservatives endangering maternal and infant health by refusing to fund birth control
Liberal - Canada
According to the UN Population Division, 61 percent of the world’s population live in countries where abortion is permitted. Providing safe abortion services where abortion is legal would prevent many of the estimated 68,000 deaths of women each year from complications arising from unsafe abortions.
,…(18 March 2010)
Infant mortality rate indicates U.S. health
Knoxville News Sentinel - USA
I used infant mortality rates as an indicator of national health. We are rated as 33rd in infant mortality by the United Nations Population Division and 46th by the CIA World Fact Book.,…(19 March 2010)
Long Live Costa Rica: Ticos are among the world's leaders in life expectancy
Tico Times - Costa Rica
“The biggest success of the 20th century has been a huge decline in mortality everywhere,” said Hania Zlotnik, director of the Population Division at the United Nations. “From 1950 to today, every country has had a reduction in mortality. In the 1940s and 1950s, good antibiotics were discovered and people began to use them massively, including in very poor countries. As those interventions were scaled up, experts began to think that mortality was going to be totally controlled in the upcoming decades because people would no longer die from common communicable diseases.” ,…(26 March 2010)
UN Reports Rapid Urbanization in China
China Radio International - China
"China alone has 25 percent of the cities with at least half a million inhabitants," said the UN report, compiled by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). DESA is a vital interface between global policies in the economies, social and environmental spheres and national action.
,…(26 March 2010)
New UN report reveals global population becoming more urban
People's Daily Online - China
The 2009 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects report, launched on Thursday by the UN Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) at the UN Headquarters in New York, said that with 50.5 percent, or 3.5 billion people worldwide living in cities in 2010, the global population as a whole is becoming more urban and less rural.
,…(26 March 2010)
New findings on urbanization shape efforts to improve slums
MediaGlobal - USA
Hania Zlotnik who is the Director of the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs told MediaGlobal, “Depending on what we project [for the world urbanization prospects], this helps our colleagues at UN HABITAT figure out what relevance the slum data they collect has on specific cities or a whole population.”
,…(30 March 2010)
Looming population crisis as world turns its back on parenthood
The Times of India - India
Detailed country-wise data on fertility and ageing, released recently by the United Nations Population Division, shows a complex mosaic of child-bearing trends among people in different regions of the world and from different socio-economic strata of society. Also revealed is the rapidly evolving world of the elderly in our society, especially its feminisation.,…(3 April 2010)
United Nations addresses urbanization and ways to implement programs
MediaGlobal - USA
The UN HABITAT report builds on the Population Division 2009 World Urbanization Prospects report issued last week, with a strong focus on developing countries and finding ways to bridge the urban divide. According to the report, “urban divide is the face of injustice and a symptom of systematic dysfunction.” ,…(8 April 2010)
Current rate of urbanisation could bring 'unprecedented challenges'
The Tribune - Bahamas
Over half of the world's 6.3 billion inhabitants reside in cities. According to the United Nation Population Division, in 20 years, six out of every 10 people are projected to be city dwellers. Almost 85 per cent of the Bahamas' population lives in urban areas, which is well above the Caribbean's 67 per cent average. By the year 2050, the urban population in the Bahamas is expected to comprise 91 per cent....(8 April 2010)
The courts of Antigua Jamaica and Dominica
Dominican.Net - Dominica
World borders have become more fluid for capital, investment and movement of people. The United Nations Population Division (UNPD) estimates that 185 million people have lived outside their country of birth for at least 12 months since the mid-70s. ... (10 April 2010)
Mudra Lifestyle review and analysis
StockMarketsReview.com - Russian Federation
According to UN Population Division, India’s urban population is projected to rise from 29 percent of total population in 2005 to 41 percent by 2030. The annual population growth in India’s rural areas has been declining since reaching a peak of 1.9 percent during 1980‐85. It will record declining growth rate by 2025. In comparison, the urban growth rate reached a peak of 3.9 percent during 1975‐80 and has been declining since, yet will remain above two percent till 2040.,…(12 April 2010)
Reich us wrong: Immigration won't solve entitlement mess
Salon.com - USA
In 2000, the U.N. Population Division calculated that maintaining the worker-retiree ratio in the U.S. between 2000 and 2050 would require the U.S., which admits roughly 1 million immigrants a year, to let in an average of 12 million immigrants per year. ,…(13 April 2010)

09 April 2010

Urban population boost predicted by Dr. Lewis
Freeport News - Bahamas
Using data collected by the United Nations Population Division, Lewis, representative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organiza-tion (WHO) for the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, added that by the year 2050 the urban residents-count is expected to increase to 414,000; this number representing 90.9 percent of the Bahamas' total population,…(8 April 2010 )

10 February 2010

The 'Mega-Eights': Urban Leviathans And International Instability
Eurasia Review - Spain
The United Nations Population Division classifies populations in excess of 10 million as megacities and many of these urban behemoths will be located in the ... (9 February 2009)

08 February 2010

How to Pick 2020's Hot Stocks Now
Moneyshow - USA
In China, for example, projections by the UN Population Division indicate that only 12.4% of the population will be 65 or older in 2020. ... 5 February 2010)

05 February 2010

Climate change: rising to the challenges in Africa - by Dr Moses Amweelo ...
New Era, Namibia
According to the latest United Nations Population Division report, we, Homo sapiens or modern man originated 200 000 years ago and up to 1776 the population of the world was barely 0.79 billion and has since experienced 860 percent growth between 1750 and 2008, from 0.79 billion to 6.7 billion.
... (5 February 2010)

25 January 2010

This decade filled with growing economic prosperity
Today's Zaman - Turkey
Infant mortality rates, an indicator of the overall health condition of a country, are still at a high 21 deaths per 1,000 live births, or 110th in the world according the United Nations population division.,…(25 January 2010)

21 January 2010

Elderly to Outnumber Children for First Time in 2045, UN Says
Bloomberg.com - USA
The proportion of the world’s population older than 60 years will reach 22 percent over the next four decades from 11 percent in 2009 and 8 percent in 1950, the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs said in the report, titled World Population Ageing 2009,…(11 January 2010)

20 January 2010

UN: Bulgaria Faces Demographic Crisis over Ageing Population
Novinite Sofia News Agency - Bulgaria
A new report from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has shown that Bulgaria is facing a serious demographic crisis as it has one of the most ageing populations in the world…(18 January 2010)
EU population totalled 501 million on January first
MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency - Uruguay
According to the Population division from the United Nations Department of economic and social affairs, the most populated countries include: China with 1.335. 5 billion; India with 1.175.75 billion; US, 308 million; Indonesia, 231.3 million; Brazil, 192.4 million; Russia, 141.915 million and Japan, 127.53 million. ,…(20 January 2010)

19 January 2010

O mundo está a envelhecer, os países pobres também
O Público - Portugal
o que o último relatório sobre o envelhecimento produzido pela Divisão da População das Nações Unidas vem dizer é que a tendência é mundial e sente-se também em países menos desenvolvidos,…(19 January 2010)

18 January 2010

We should not miss the train
The Daily Star - Bangladesh
The UN Population Division has identified four historical shifts that will fundamentally alter the world's population in the next four decades,…(3 January 2010)
Population trends: lessons for RP
Philippine Daily Inquirer - Philippines
The UN Population Division (UNPD) states, “The primary consequence of fertility decline, especially if combined with increases in life expectancy, is population ageing. It adds, “Globally, the number of persons aged 60 years or over is expected almost to triple” between 2005 and 2050.,…(2 January 2010)
'Foreign Affairs" Sees New Population Bomb
Manila Times - Philippines
The United Nations Population Division now projects that global population growth will nearly halt by 2050. By that date, the world’s population will have stabilized at 9.15 billion people, according to the “medium growth” variant of the UN’s authoritative population database World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision.,…(10 January 2010)
Policy makers must see error of population control
Manila Times - Philippines
The UN Population Division projects that by 2020 the TFR will drop to 2.29—just a breath away from the replacement level of 2.1. …(10 January 2010)
Growing urbanisation brings business risks
Lloyd's News Centre - UK
Between 2007 and 2050, the world population is expected to grow by 2.5 billion, according to data from the United Nations’ Population Division.…(13 January 2010)
Medical Care Technologies Inc. Launches Secure Care-Giving Technology to Promote Independent Living
Yacht Vacations and Charters Magazine - USA
According to the United Nations Population Division estimates, 30 percent of the population of China will be older than sixty by 2050, compared to only 25 percent of the U.S. population... (14 January 2010)
A simple family size solution
Globe and Mail- Canada
When we say that the world currently has 6,796,500,000 people, or when we point out that, as of 2007, there were more urbanites than country-dwellers in the world, or that the average human lifespan has jumped from 45 years a century ago to 67 today, we are unknowingly citing Ms. Zlotnik's work as head of the United Nations Population Division.
,…(15 January 2010)