Investing in population growth
Money Management - Australia
According to the UN’s Population Division, we are living through a period of population ageing that is “without parallel in the history of humanity”.This process is a result of the combined effects of declining fertility and falling mortality rates.Although population ageing is both a pervasive and irreversible reality in nearly all countries of the world, the trend is significantly stronger in more developed countries – the proportion of people aged 60 and over in developed countries is expected to rise to a third of the total in 2050, from around a fifth today....(20 April 2012)

The ghost of Thomas Malthus hovers over unsustainable global population increases
The Australian - Australia
Still, we have been able to take comfort that population growth looked like peaking at about nine billion by the middle of this century and falling after that. At least that was until the UN Population Division released its latest two-yearly projections in May. It has increased its 2050 figure by 156 million to 9.3 billion from its estimate two years earlier, and by 390 million since 2002. Instead of population growth stopping in the middle of the century, it is projecting merely a marked slowing down, to reach 10.1 billion by 2100.,…(2 July 2011)

World population growth racing ahead, UN reports
Sidney Morning Herald - Australia
The world's population, long expected to stabilise just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may even hit 10.1 billion by 2100, a United Nations report said. (...) The projections were made by the UN population division, which has a track record of fairly accurate forecasts. In the new report, the division raised its forecast for 2050, arriving at a figure of 9.3 billion, an increase of 156 million over the previous estimate for that year, published in 2008. ... (5 May 2011)

Population boom increasing global food crisis
ABC News - Australia
Hania Zlotnik, director of the population division in the UN department of economic and social affairs, says the rate of growth has got the UN's attention. "What is astounding is that the last two billion have been reached in record time," she said. …(4 May 2011)

Live so that less will be more
Canberra Times - Australia
The United Nations Population Division points out that the Eastern Asian economies demonstrated that with public investment in education and health, and strong pro-employment economic policies, the demographic dividend could pay off handsomely. …(1 May 2011)

Mass urbanisation: why do we flock together?
ABC Radio National - Australia
The United Nations Population Division estimates more than half the world's people now live in urban areas, with that percentage to rise to 70% by 2050. And in the developed world, the figure is already 74%. …(10 March 2011)

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.
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The problem with our environment is us
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
The latest report of the UN population division of March 11, 2009 shows that the world's population is 6.8 billion, and is expected to exceed 9 billion by ...(5 October 2009)

The quiet tsunami that kills every day
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
In mid-September a joint group from UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, the World Bank and the United Nations Population Division , released the ...(5 October 2009)

Global population 'to hit 9 billion by 2050'
Adelaide Independent Weekly - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
The data, prepared by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, however show that slowing population growth resulting ...(11 March 2009)

Supplying sustainability
On Line opinion - Australia
The United Nations’ Population Division said that 2007 was the first time in history that more humans lived in urban rather than in rural areas. (10 June 2008)

Global urbanisation unstoppable: UN
BrisbaneTimes.com - Australia
The urban regions thus will absorb most of the world's population increase in the next four decades while drawing on some of the rural population…(27 February 2008)

Half world population to be urban-dwellers by year-end
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
At a news conference launching the 2007 Revision of World Urbanisation Prospects, Hania Zlotnik, head of the UN Population Division , said the greatest ... (27 February 2008)