China 2010 Population Census: Ageing Revisited
Business Insider - USA
In the 2010 census, the age group of 15-59 accounted for 70.14% of total population, increased by 3.36% comparing with the 2000 census. The increase in proportion is quite consistent with the UN Population Division Estimates. ...(28 April 2008)

How liveable is Kuala Lumpur?
The Star - Malaysia
According to the United Nations Population Division, the share of Asians living in urban areas has grown from 32% in 1990 to 42% last year. In 15 years, the UN forecasts that half of Asians will be city dwellers.…(2 April 2011)

Russia Has Its Own Tea Party
Moscow Times - Russian Federation
Like most pension systems in other countries, Russia’s pension system is funded by its current workers. This works as long as the population is growing. But Russia is shrinking at an accelerating pace. In 1992, the country’s population decreased by about 220,000. In the past few years, it decreased by 700,000 to 800,000 per year. As a result, there are about 1.6 working people for one retiree, which is four times less than in the 1970s. What’s more, according to the United Nations Population Division, in 2050 Russia’s population will fall by a quarter from its current 140 million to 108 million.…(21 March 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)

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)

How to Profit from the Silver Economy
Hemscott News - UK
The world is living through a period of population ageing that is "without parallel in the history of humanity," according to the UN's population division. This process is a result of the combined effects of declining fertility and reducing mortality rates. Although population ageing affects nearly all countries, the trend is much stronger in developed countries. Globally, the number of those aged 60 and above is expected to exceed the number of children (those under 15) for the first time in 2045. In more advanced countries, this milestone was reached in 1998. ,…(3 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)

Young and restless: Africa at risk for upheaval
Toronto Star - Canada
By this under-30 measure sub-Saharan Africa offers a long list of countries demographically defined as having a “very young” age structure. In Chad, 73 per cent of the population is under 30 and thus is deemed “very young” by the United Nations Population Division. Ditto Cameroon, where 71 per cent of the population is under 30. By this measure Tunisia’s age structure is defined as “transitional” with 56 per cent of the population under 30.…(26 February 2011)

Building Asian cities in a sustainable way
The Star - Malaysia
The future of Asia is in its cities. It is the cities and the activities generated therein that will help the continent march forward. But in order for cities to thrive, it needs people. Although still one of the less urbanised continents, Asia's urban population has grown from 32% in 1990 to 42% in 2010, according to the United Nations Population Division. By 2026, half of Asia's 3.7 billion population from India to China (excluding the Middle East) will be city dwellers.…(26 February 2011)

Sheikh Abdullah in Cape Town for UN panel
The National - United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
Meanwhile, UN population counters warn that the global population will hit seven billion this year, and could double to 14 billion by 2100 unless leaders across the developing world can work to more effectively reduce birth rates. Hania Zlotnik, head of the UN Population Division, said population growth may not level off and warned governments of a "day of reckoning" when the number of people exceeds the planet's ability to provide for them.(24 February 2011)

Crossing globalisation's last frontier
Business Times - Singapore
By contrast, labour flow has been more sedate, even if some may point to a rise in the past two decades. Since 1990 (from which year data is available from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division of the United Nations), the world's migrant population has moved up from 155 million to 213 million - more than one-third higher. (22 February 2011)

OSCE presents second study on migration data in Astana
The Financial - Georgia
The event was organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the OSCE Centre in Astana in co-operation with IOM. Government officials and policymakers discussed issues including internal and external migration data needs and the steps needed to harmonize data collection between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.(...)To ensure synergy with other data collection processes, activities are being co-ordinated with other international organizations including the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the International Labour Organization and the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (18 February 2011)

UN warns that Egypt's population is set to triple to 290m
The National - United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
If the average Egyptian woman continues having 2.9 children, the population will grow from 84.5m last year to 291m in 2100. If Yemen's fertility rate remains stable at 5.3, a resource-poor nation could witness 18-fold growth from 24.3 million last year to 434 million people at the end of the century. "Egypt has seen a decline in fertility but still has a moderately high fertility rate," said Hania Zlotnik, the director of the UN Population Division, which compiled the 30-page report. "If Egypt does not continue to reduce fertility rates, they will have a huge problem because it is the most populous country in that region, with economic problems and questions about feeding, educating and finding jobs for its population." ,…(16 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)

Megacity Singapore is Asia’s greenest city - Asian Green City Index study analyzes the environmental sustainability of 22 major cities in Asia
Manufacturing.net - USA
According to the United Nations Population Division, the proportion of Asia's population living in cities has grown in the last 20 years by around a third to over 40 percent. In the last five years alone, the number of inhabitants in Asian cities has been increasing by about 100,000 a day. And this development will continue in the years to come. In China alone, experts predict that by 2025 there will be well over 200 cities with a population of over a million. 2011 there are just under 90, while Europe currently has 25 cities of that size. (13 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)

Como sobreviver num mundo de nove mil milhões
Público - Portugal
As Nações Unidas estão a fazer um levantamento extenso das populações dos países para apurar melhor os números de hoje e corrigir previsões. Mas é esta rapidez que assusta.
"Se os níveis de fertilidade e de mortalidade que temos hoje não se alterarem, a população mundial vai adicionar mil milhões de pessoas em tempos muito pequenos", disse ao PÚBLICO Hania Zlotnik, Directora da Divisão de População das Nações Unidas.…(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)

UN warns of rapid population growth
Press TV - Iran
The UN Population Division has introduced six potential theories for the future population change based on the changes to fertility level and other factors. …(3 February 2011)

UN 'concerned' by world population growth trends
BBC - UK
The UN Population Division have produced six projections of potential future population change based on different changes to fertility level and other factors. In the medium scenario, world population peaks at 9.4 billion in 2070 and then starts to decline. However for this to happen, fertility needs to decline significantly in most developing countries. In recent years, there has been widespread acceptance of the medium scenario as almost a certainty. However Hania Zlotnik, the Director of the UN Population Division says there is "no guarantee that this scenario will become a reality because high-fertility countries may not reduce their fertility fast enough and countries with intermediate fertility levels may see them stagnate above replacement level".…(3 February 2011)

The state of our economy: What recent research tells us
MoneyWeb - South Africa
As the effects of HIV/Aids begin to take hold and combine with relatively low life expectancy at birth figures, SA's forecasted population growth has been radically down casted to annual mid-level prediction of 0.47% between 2010 and 2015 and 0,38% between 2015 and 2020, according to the World Population Prospects released by the UN's Population Division.,…(31 January 2011)

Population growth not in sync with natural resources, by K. Srinivasan, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
Economic Times - India
Based on the 2001 Census data and earlier trends in fertility and mortality rates, the Registrar General of India has projected the population of the country in 2011 to be around 1,193 million. The United Nations Population Division, which has consistently projected higher figures for India, has estimated it to be 1,230 million for the same year. The UN assumes that there has been a systematic undercount in our censuses which has to be corrected and hence it has given higher estimates. The 2011 Census to take place in the next few months will clarify whether we are closer to the UN or GoI projections.,…(30 January 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)

The Crisis in Tunisia: Africa’s Youth Unemployment Time-Bomb
Brookings Institution - USA
The United Nations Population Division has also observed that Africa’s youth bulge is quite unique; the region will account for 29 percent of the world’s population aged 15-24 by 2050, up from 9 percent in 1950.,…(26 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)