How Malawi fed its own people, by Jeffrey Sachs
New York Times - US
A dozen years ago, at the start of the new millennium, Malawi’s extreme suffering was pretty much ignored by the world. AIDS, malaria, TB, hunger, extreme poverty and one of the world’s lowest life expectancies (46 years in the period 1995-2000, according to the U.N. Population Division) wracked the land.,…(19 April 2012)

Too Many People?
The New Yorker - US
The United Nations has been analyzing and forecasting the world’s demographics for decades. 1966, Henry S. F. Cooper visited the Secretariat’s Population Division to speak with two officers, Milos Macura and Inderjit Singh. At that point, the U.N. estimated the global population at three billion three hundred and thirty million. Cooper asked them to look ahead, and Macura correctly forecast that the largest population growths would happen in China and India, and said, “The solution isn’t merely to cut the birthrate but to increase economic growth as well." ,…(17 October 2011)

U.S. teen birth rate down slightly
UPI - US
The U.S. birth rate for females ages 15-19 was 39.1 births per 1,000 females in 2009 -- a historic low -- but the rate was higher than in a number of other developed countries. The United Nations Population Division said the teen birth rate in Canada was 14 births per 1,000 female teens; in Germany, it was 10 births per 1,000 female teens; and in Italy, 7 per 1,000 female teens, the report said. ,…(13 October 2011)

Ag. commissioner seeks re-election
Daily Comet - USA
If re-elected, Strain said he would begin to view his department’s role on more of a global scale. He noted an “alarming statistic” released by the United Nations Population Division. It projects that the global population could reach 9.3 billion by mid-century and 10.1 billion by 2100. “We must feed, clothe, house and provide energy worldwide to meet this growing demand, and this will result in a tremendous economic impact to all of America,” Strain said... (5 October 2011)

Demographic tectonics
New York Times - US
Slow but steady contraction in the north, vigorous and sustained expansion in Africa; seven billion of us by October this year, eight billion sometime around 2025. The latest United Nations population figures provide a dramatic glimpse of how the demographic map of the planet is being reshaped. For the latest revision of its biennial “World Population Prospects,” the U.N. Population Division has extended its forecasts by 50 years, to 2100. Long-term forecasts must be taken with a grain of salt — they “have no operational role,” as the French demographer Hervé Le Bras has written; they just help “staging and exaggerating today’s fears.” ,…(25 May 2011)

Hania Zlotnik on newest UN population numbers
EarthSky - US
According to figures released by the United Nations in May of 2011, Earth’s human population will cross the seven billion mark on October 31 of this year. EarthSky spoke to U.N. Population Division Director Hania Zlotnik. (...) She said that, according to the latest U.N. projections, Earth’s population will hit 9.3 billion in the year 2050 – and 10.1 billion in the year 2100. She explained that most of the growth is expected to occur in developing countries. (...) The U.N.’s population projections highlight an urgent need for effective family planning in the developing world, said Zlotnik. If population in developing countries rises at faster rates than projected, she said, the world could have more like 16 billion people by the end of the 21st century. …(25 May 2011)

There's One Big Driver In The Hong Kong Housing Boom, And It's Not Supply
Business Insider - USA
(...) The next step is to estimate the required net supply level that would keep the surplus-to-total-private-sector-housing-stock ratio roughly constant. I take the population projection by United Nations Population Division, and assume that the average household size to be constant at 2.9 (as it currently is) to estimate the annual increase of the number of households. (15 March 2011)

Advanced Wound Care Management to 2016
Online PR Media - USA
According to the United Nations Population Division, people aged 60 and over are projected to account for 22% of the total world population by 2050, up from 11% in 2007, which will drive growth in the advanced wound management market.,…(25 February 2011)

Africa Month: African Mammal Population Cut in Half
OpEdNews.com - US
Among the ten most populated countries in the world, Nigeria had the highest rate of human population growth -- almost 27% since 1950 -- according to the United Nations Population Division. The continent's population of 1 billion people is projected to grow to 1.9 billion by 2050. (11 February 2011)

5+ Million Chinese Abroad–But India’s Got More
Forbes - US
Now come figures–the Global Bilateral Migration Database, still a work in progress or “forthcoming” as the social scientists say–that put meat on the bone. This joint project of the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank’s research division has used extrapolation from the 2000 census round (latest available) to project where things stood in 2010. ,…(5 February 2011)

U.N.: World population rate must slow
UPI - US
The U.N. Population Division says for a reasonable possibility of stabilizing world population, fertility must drop below a "replacement level" at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next, the BBC reported Thursday. That level is 2.5 children per woman in high mortality countries and 2.1 children per woman in low mortality countries. If that level is achieved it must then be maintained for an extended period, the report says. The world population, expected to reach 7 billion this year, could double to 14 billion by 2100 if action is not taken, the Population Division says.…(3 February 2011)

The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030
Pew Research Center Publications - USA
The current population data that underpin this report were culled from the best sources available on Muslims in each of the 232 countries and territories for which the U.N. Population Division provides general population estimates. (27 January 2011)

Global Poverty and Its Sad Persistence
American Enterprise Unstitute - USA
According to the UN Population Division, Mexico's overall life expectancy at birth these days (2005/2010) is a little over 76 years--a level fully two decades higher than half a century earlier: a level, furthermore that Sweden and the Netherlands, leaders in global health progress, did not themselves reach until the 1980s.,…(25 January 2011)

Ageing: world population faces watershed
People & the Planet - USA
In 1950, there were 335 million children in the 0-4 age group and just 131 million people ages 65+. According to United Nations Population Division estimates for mid-2010, there were 642 million persons ages 0-4 and 523 million ages 65+. That is, of course, quite a change. …(16 January 2011)

People v. Planet
The Atlantic - USA
Before the 20th century, no human had lived through a doubling of the human population, but there are people alive today who have seen it triple. Sometime in late 2011, according to the UN Population Division, there will be seven billion of us. (2 January 2011)

Earth's Population to Reach 7 Billion in 2011
ABC News - USA
A clock is ticking. Sometime late this year, the United Nations Population Division predicts that with about five babies born every second, the world will have 7 billion people. …(5 January 2011)

Population Projection: Your 7 Billion Neighbors And What They Mean
NPR.org - USA
According to the UN Population Division, you will have seven billion cohabitants on the planet by the end of this year. It is also projected that by 2045, the global population could reach nine billion. That kind of growth — the fastest in history — raises serious concerns and questions for you, me and the planet: If we can barely support our current population, can we possibly sustain another 2 billion?
(6 January 2011)

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)

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)

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)