Figures of population growth
Financial Express - Bangladesh
The estimate of the United Nations (UN) Population Division is also very close to the PRB figures. Thus, the dependable independent estimation of population trends in Bangladesh only point to the fact ,…(27 September 2010)

Dounreay nuclear staff look to the future
BBC - UK
Population rates will have declined and then started to rise again by 2300, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division. Polar bears could be extinct within the next 100 years say scientists It has projected that the number of people in the world will peak at 9.22 billion in 2075.After reaching this maximum, world population will decline slightly and then increase slowly to reach 8.97 billion by 2300. (17 September 2010)

7 Countries that Could Crash in Five Years
Street Authority - US
Japan serves as a prime example of the demographic time bomb. According to the United Nations' Population Division, Japanese households are having an average of 1.4 children (well below the 2.1 replacement rate), and when this is coupled with restrictive immigration policies, it has led to a steadily rising average age in Japan. Japan's life expectancy, already among the highest in the world at 83 years, could approach 90 in the next few decades, according to the U.N. (16 September 2010)

Not a new issue
The Star - Malayasia
In May 2000, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly decided to convene the Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002. The 2002 event included the publication of a report, World Population Ageing 1950-2050, which provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators of the ageing process by development regions, major areas, regions and countries. Here are the findings highlighted in the UN’s Population Division website
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Italia: R.I.P.
Wall Street Journal - US
Today, these bambinis make up only 4.2% of the population. Young children are disappearing from Italy. According to the UN's Population Division, ...7 September 2010)

Birthday finds Social Security rickety at 75
Hernando Today/Tampa Tribune - US
...Couple that with projections by the United Nations' Population Division that by 2030, there will be only 2.6 workers paying into Social Security for every man or woman receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits compared with 4.1 workers per retiree in 2000; and the picture of the future begins to look bleak. (14 August 2010)

In 100 years we’ll be a fully urban species
Deccan Chronicle - India
The population of the world’s countryside will stop growing around 2019, according to the UN Population Division’s more conservative estimates, and by 2050 will have fallen by 600 million because of migration to the city. India’s rural population, one of the last to stop growing, is set to peak in 2025 at 909 million, and shrink to 743 million by 2050...(16 August 2010)

South and the Third World
Guardian - UK
Let's start with one obvious index of social well being, infant mortality rates. The international numbers below are from the UN Population Division, the state numbers from the Kaiser Foundation.…(10 August 2010)

A Weakened but Resourceful Iran
Council on Foreign Relations - US
A third reason is that Iran has had, in the early years after the revolution, very, very rapid population growth. [According to the UN's Population Division, Iran's population rose from thirty-nine million in 1980 to nearly seventy-one million in 2005.] ,…(9 August 2010)

Is Ahmadinejad Instigating a Demographic Catastrophe?
Huffington Post - US
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J. (2002). "Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran", Completing the Fertility Transition, United Nations, Population Division, New York, pp. 425-439.
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ICCI demands rainwater harvesting
Pakistan Observer - Pakistan
ICCI President Zahid Maqbool said the recent monsoon rains have caused heavy floods and destruction of great number of human and physical infrastructure. He said that had there been proper system of rain harvesting, these damages would have been minimized to sufficient extent. Pakistan’s population is growing fast as UN’s Population Division has projected that Pakistan will overtake Brazil and Indonesia by 2050. It would become the fourth largest populated country in the world, almost doubling to 335 million from its current more than 170 million, he added.…(6 August 2010)

What a Strong Yen Means for U.S. Investors -- and How to Profit
Street Authority - USA
The demographic data are sobering. According to the U.N.'s Population Division, Japanese households are having an average of 1.4 children (well below the 2.1 replacement rate), and when coupled with restrictive immigration policies, it has led to a steadily rising average age. Roughly 20% of Japan's population is 65 or older. By 2050, that figure should rise to 37%, according to the U.N.,…(4 August 2010)

For millions across the world, home is someplace else
The Times of India - India
The total number of international migrants is estimated to touch 214 million this year, that is, about three per cent of the world’s population, according to the UN Population Division. …(17 July 2010)

Senior UN official highlights role of good census before World Population Day
Xinhuanet.com - China"
If one is not counted, one doesn't count," a senior UN official has told Xinhua in an interview on the occasion of the forthcoming World Population Day (WPD), observed on Sunday. Hania Zlotnik, director of the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), was referring to the theme of this year's WPD -- Everyone counts. ,…(10 July 2010)

Population Trends Affect Realization of World Anti-Poverty Goals
Crienglish.com- China
"We have good evidence that countries that have been able over the last 30 years to reduce their fertility considerably are doing much better in obtaining the MDGS than countries that still have relatively high fertility," said Hania Zlotnik, director of the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)...(11 July 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)

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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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."
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The world has become a city
Le Monde Diplomatique - France
According to United Nations Population Division estimates, the rate of global urbanisation will increase considerably in coming decades, reaching 59.7% in ...(May 2010)

Dealt some duff cards, but the welcome is warm
East Anglian Daily Times - UK
Organisations offer slightly different statistics, but they’re all dreadful. The United Nations Population Division ranks Sierra Leone worst of 195 countries, with 160 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. …(4 May 2010)

Fewer Indians adopted by rich world now
>The Times of India - India
Geopolitical changes have radically altered the preferences of prospective foster parents' in the developed world and the last 30 years have seen India move from second to the seventh most preferred country to supply children to the childless rich. These are some of the findings of an analysis of adoption trends across 195 countries by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Population Division. ,…(2 May 2010)

Our position on labour migration, by TUC
Daily Sun - Nigeria
The United Nations (UN) Population Division puts the figure of international migrants in Asia at 33 million in 2005, about half of whom are working. ,…(3 May 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)