The human population has doubled in 48 years, and worsening climate change has left the world facing serious health risks, from infectious diseases to hunger and heat stress.
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The UN estimates the global population will pass 8 billion people on Nov. 15, 2022. From the Stone Age to today, here’s how things spiraled out of control.
There should be a better long-term strategy for foreign direct investments in Nigeria that’s not tied to its oil reserves.
Nigeria must prioritise investment in education, health and infrastructure to harness the opportunities of its huge population.
A 1972 report warned that unchecked consumption could crater the world economy by 2100. Fifty years and much debate later, can humanity innovate quickly enough to avoid that fate?
According to the 2021 Census there are now almost one million Indigenous people in Australia. Although increase in population is a reason for this, there are some other factors to consider.
India is now the third-largest birthplace of Australian residents behind Australia and England, while for the first time less than half of the population has identified as Christian.
Census is a huge scientific responsibility that requires a high level of preparedness, transparency and quality assurance.
A street-by-street analysis shows where the risks are rising fastest and also lays bare the inequities of who has to endure America’s crippling flood problem.
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
If rural communities plan carefully – and some already are – they can reinvent themselves as the perfect homes for people fleeing wildfire and hurricane zones.
Hot, humid population centers are becoming epicenters of heat risk as climate changes worsens. It’s calling into question the conventional wisdom that urbanization uniformly reduces poverty.
Youth unemployment in Nigeria is a skills mismatch problem – corporations can’t find suitable workers in the midst of a large pool of unemployed workers.
Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. That record will be broken this century, statistical models suggest.
Census 2021 is no ordinary population survey – it will lay the foundation for Australia’s post-pandemic future.
Ghana’s latest population census offers a window into the contested terrain of population statistics.
The report will show that by 2061 there will only be 2.7 Australians of traditional working age for each Australian over 65.
The Nigerian government must design more interventions to improve education, employment opportunities and the economy in order to control the country’s population growth.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is reducing life expectancy, decreasing birth rates and slowing down immigration. These changes may produce concerning trends in populations globally.
It took just 5,000 years for large and well-organised groups of people to populate all corners of the continent.
Top contributors
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Gilles Pison is a Friend of The Conversation.
Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN); Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Partner Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate professor, University of Ibadan
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ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Adelaide University
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Newcastle