The great shift from farm to city
Los Angeles Times - USA
This will be matched by an almost as dramatic decline in rural population. The United Nations Population Division predicts that the population of the world's villages and rural areas will stop growing around eight years from now and that, by 2050, the rural population will have fallen by 600 million due to migration to cities and urban encroachment on villages.(19 June 2011)

Japan's list of those 100 or older swells to more than 40000 people
Los Angeles Times, US
The centenarian population surpassed 10000 just 10 years ago, reached 30000 in 2007 and grew another 10000 in the past two years, the ministry said.... By 2050, Japan's centenarian population is expected to reach nearly 1 million, according to the U.N. projections....(11 September 2009)