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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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 )