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)