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How the world went from 170 million people to 7.3 billion, in one map. Humanity has conquered the world. It's hard to appreciate what that means, but the video above, by WorldPopulationHistory.org, shows just how incredible the growth and expansion of humanity has been over the past 2,000 years. Here are some of the notable moments in the video: The map begins at 1:18, showing human population a little more than 2,000 years ago, with each yellow dot representing 1 million people in an area. At this point, there are 170 million people on Earth.At 3:20, the Mongol invasion of China begins in the early 13th century, killing huge segments of the population.

The video itself can get a little dry at points, but what's really impressive is the fully interactive map at WorldPopulationHistory.org. There, you can zoom in, go through different years, and look at significant milestones. Italian town welcomes first baby for 28 years. Image copyright Wikimedia/Francofranco56 A small town in northern Italy is celebrating the arrival of its first baby since the 1980s. The mayor of Ostana, which lies in the mountains of the Piedmont region, says the new arrival is a "dream come true" for the tiny community, which has seen its population plummet over the past 100 years.

Baby Pablo, who was born in a Turin hospital last week, takes the number of inhabitants to 85, although only about half live there permanently, La Stampa newspaper reports. Mayor Giacomo Lombardo says that while 1,000 people called Ostana home in the early 1900s, a steady drop in the birth rate began after World War Two. "The real decline started in 1975, with 17 babies between 1976 and 1987, when the last boy was born - until little Pablo," he says. Ostana is trying to reverse the depopulation trend, primarily by creating new jobs. Some feel the family's story bodes well for other mountain communities. Who is cashing in on keeping migrants out? -- New Internationalist.

Driving towards Mexico through Arizona, watchtowers rise out of the dry soil like tall cacti. The highway is adorned with clutches of cameras and blocked by a vast Border Patrol checkpoint. Down at the border itself, a tall fence of rust-brown steel drives a wedge between ambos Nogales – ‘both Nogales’, as the interlinked US and Mexican towns are known. In the hinterland, drones buzz over the rattlesnake-infested ground, which is dotted by sensors whose antennae sprout like desert weed. ‘You have to watch where you step,’ says one middle-aged Central American man at a shelter in Nogales, Mexico, as he mimics a mine-clearing movement. The other migrants around us murmur and nod. Some of them are new to the route, some veterans, others deportees bent on returning home to the US.

All are caught up in the ‘cat-and-mouse game’ of the border, where they are chased like prey while also playing another, complementary role: as guinea pigs in a state-of-the-art border control laboratory. Current Population is Three Times the Sustainable Level - World Population Balance - United States world environmentally sustainable population. Global Footprint Network data shows that humanity uses the equivalent of 1.6 planet Earths to provide the renewable resources we use and absorb our waste.1 If all 7+ billion of us were to enjoy a European standard of living - which is about half the consumption of the average American - the Earth could sustainably support only about 2 billion people.

It is crucial to understand that the longer we continue consuming more resources than the Earth can sustainably provide, the less able the Earth can meet our resource needs in the future - and the fewer people the planet can support - long-term. Evidence of unsustainable resource use is all around us. Global aquifers are being pumped 3.5 times faster than rainfall can naturally recharge them.2 Eventually they will run dry and hundreds of millions will suffer. Topsoil is being lost 10-40 times faster than it is formed.3 Feeding all 7+ billion of us will become increasingly difficult. All of us want a viable, sustainable global home. 6 - A.J. Kent council struggling to cope with rise in child migrants. Image copyright EPA Vulnerable children are being placed in care outside their home county of Kent due to the influx of child asylum seekers, according to council chiefs.

Kent County Council said the continuing flow of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) from across the English Channel had left it with no choice. The authority currently has 924 such children in its care, compared with nearly 630 at the start of last August. Councillor Peter Oakford said it was "not a position we want to be in". The cabinet member for specialist children's services said Kent County Council had seen a 30% rise in looked-after children in the past seven months. Other authorities elsewhere in the UK have accepted full responsibility for 56 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Mr Oakford told the children's social care and health cabinet committee: "This has affected our ability to place citizen children within Kent ourselves.

11 Countries with Highest Urban Population Percentage. These 11 countries with the highest urban population percentage offer a glimpse into the future of dominantly urbanized world. In 2014, more than a half of world population, or more precisely 54 percent, lived in urban areas. The number of 3.9 billion people living in the cities represents a significant increase compared to 1950 when the total urban population was 746 million. In the years that come the number of city-dwellers will continue to rise, reaching 66 percent of world’s population by 2050. Thomas La Mela / Shutterstock.com Although compared to other parts of the world Asia has a lower level of urbanization, the greatest share of urban population is concentrated on this continent.

India, the country that will experience urban population growth of 404 million by 2050, exemplifies how the rapid increase in urban population can create a pile of social and environmental problems. More people in Europe are dying than are being born. More people in Europe are dying than are being born, according to a new report co-authored by a Texas A&M University demographer.

In contrast, births exceed deaths, by significant margins, in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S., with few exceptions. Texas A&M Professor of Sociology Dudley Poston, along with Professor Kenneth Johnson, University of New Hampshire, and Professor Layton Field, Mount St. Mary's University, published their findings in Population and Development Review this month.

The researchers find that 17 European nations have more people dying in them than are being born (natural decrease), including three of Europe's more populous nations: Russia, Germany and Italy. In contrast, in the U.S. and in the state of Texas, births exceed deaths by a substantial margin. "In 2013 in Texas, for example, there were over 387,000 births compared to just over 179,000 deaths," says Poston. In Texas, just 24 percent of the state's 254 counties had more deaths than births. World Population Clock: 7.3 Billion People (2015) World Population: Past, Present, and Future (move and expand the bar at the bottom of the chart to navigate through time) The chart above illustrates how world population has changed throughout history. View the full tabulated data. At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million.

A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), and the fifth billion in only 13 years (1987). During the 20th century alone, the population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. Wonder how big was the world's population when you were born? Growth Rate Yearly Growth Rate (%) Annual growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at around 2%.

World Population (2019 and historical) Jews. This amazing GIF shows 300 years of global population shifts. Over the past 200 years, the global population has changed dramatically, in terms of both pure numbers and where populations are growing — and how quickly. This has massive implications for global politics, but can be hard to appreciate abstractly — which is why the following GIF mapping the changes, from Microcosm's Max Galka, is so interesting. Galka took a standard map projection, then readjusted the size of each continent to match the percentage of the global population that lives there. The GIF shows what that looked like in 1800, 1900, and 2000, plus, according to United Nations projections, what it will look like in 2100: (Max Galka/Microcosm) There's a lot of information packed in there. Europe is a small continent, in geographic terms, but held a significant percentage of the global population in 1800 and 1900.

There's a lot more analysis of the data over at Microcosm, including some really interesting charts of long-term population trends. India records higher sterilization than US, China, reveals govt data - Times of India. NEW DELHI: India has registered the highest contraceptive prevalence rate for sterilization at 36.9%, as compared to other countries with similar demographics, government data showed. The US, which followed India in the rankings, recorded 36.3% whereas China's was at 33.2% and Brazil's at 34.2%. This assumes significance in the wake of concerns related to India's rising population and the government's continuous efforts to contain the decadal growth rate.

Various international agencies, including the United Nations, have projected that India will be the most populous nation by 2022. However, the government has recently taken steps to improve the coverage and create more awareness about family planning, mainly in rural ar eas. To ensure a greater thrust on spacing methods, the health ministry has also created specific schemes for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to ensure spacing in births. So far, 24 states have already achieved replacement level fertility . How Religion is Making Overpopulation Worse. By Vexen Crabtree | 10 April 2015Human Truth 1.

The Necessity of Birth Control and Contraception and the Opposition of Religious Organisations Few people doubt the severity of the problem that overpopulation presents for this planet. Its consequences are poverty, famine, disease and death, sometimes on very large scales. Minor problems include overcrowding, strained infrastructure and social instability. Aside from population control, “the health benefits of contraceptive use are substantial. “Some of the religious traditions have presented recurring obstacles to open discussion of certain kinds of birth control at UN population conferences. Bearing this out is Catholicism, which has an infamously strict suite of dogmas that forbid all kinds of birth control. The graph to the right can be clicked to view the full size version.

On account of all of this, in “Why I am not a Christian” by Bertrand Russell (1957) the author takes a moral stance against the Church: 2. 2.1. 2.2. In conclusion: How Religion is Making Overpopulation Worse. British Red Cross. World Population to hit 11 Billion in 2100 - Full Documentary. Youtube. 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? Population Density... with Minecraft! Debating the link between emissions and population. There are those who perceive any effort to limit population growth as "population control. " This is a term that chillingly evokes coercive state intervention to control individual reproductive behavior. Population control programs have rarely been implemented without exacting unacceptable ethical costs. But there's a big difference between coercive state-led population control programs and efforts to slow rapid population growth.

Population control programs target the actions of individuals. Efforts to slow the population growth rate, meanwhile, work within existing societal contexts and seek to produce voluntary change. Population size and composition are among the key drivers of climate change. Regions with the heaviest carbon footprints are experiencing slower population growth than other regions. Sub-Saharan Africa's carbon footprint is light. African policy makers do care about the region’s rapid rate of population growth—but climate change is by no means the top reason why. The Economist. The Economist. ON A trolley in a government clinic in rural Ethiopia lies Debalke Jemberu. As a medic and a nurse winkle the sperm-carrying tubes out of his testicles, he explains why he decided to have a vasectomy.

He is a farmer, growing wheat, sorghum and a local staple grain called teff. But his plot is barely a quarter of a hectare. He already has four children, and has often struggled to provide for them. The medic, who has six more vasectomies to perform that day, interrupts to say he is finished. Mr Jemberu’s daughter, who is 25, is still single (he married at 19). In the minds of many Westerners, Ethiopia is a teeming place with an ever-increasing number of mouths to feed. In other words, Ethiopia spans the world’s demographic spectrum. The shift has been rapid and dramatic. Most other countries’ demographic transitions have gone much further. How quickly Ethiopia and other African countries follow this example has implications not just for those countries but for the whole world. Counting the World.

The Economist. Huffingtonpost. Huffingtonpost. Demographic Transition Model. The changes in population growth rates and the effect on population can be shown on the Demographic Transition Model (Population Cycle) - see diagram below: This can be divided into four stages: Stage 1 - High Fluctuating Birth Rate and Death rate are both high. Population growth is slow and fluctuating. Reasons Birth Rate is high as a result of: Lack of family planning High Infant Mortality Rate: putting babies in the 'bank' Need for workers in agriculture Religious beliefsChildren as economic assets Death Rate is high because of: High levels of disease Famine Lack of clean water and sanitation Lack of health care War Competition for food from predators such as ratsLack of education Typical of Britain in the 18th century and the Least Economically Developed Countries (LEDC's) today. Stage 2 - Early Expanding Birth Rate remains high. Death Rate is falling as a result of: Improved health care (e.g.

Typical of Britain in 19th century; Bangladesh; Nigeria Stage 3 - Late Expanding Reasons: See How the One-Child Policy Changed China. China's decision to lift its one-child policy next year is expected to diversify the country’s aging, increasingly male population. But the degree to which the policy has affected the country of more than 1.3 billion people is hard to imagine.

Here are five charts and maps that help illustrate it. Population Control The nearly 40-year-old restriction on having multiple children isn't the only time the Chinese government stepped into family planning. Shortly after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Mao Zedong encouraged the population to multiply and create manpower. The success was short lived. In 1979, the government introduced the one-child policy, under which most couples are allowed to have only one child or else face the possibility of fines, sterilizations, and abortions. Population Growth In 2013, a relaxation of policy allowed over 12 million couples to apply to have a second child. Another Kind of Labor It’s Happening (Almost) Everywhere. Untitled. Migration structure. Migration Case Study Poland To Uk. Assessing the Political Impact of Immigration as the United Kingdom Heads to the Polls. Labour Migration | Economics. What Is the Real Impact of Migration from Eastern Europe to the UK? A Look at the Evidence | Politics Upside Down.

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