An updated version of the wall chart World Population Ageing will also be published during 2005.

It is no longer possible to ignore global ageing regardless of whether one views it positively or negatively.

The Western world will represent only 12 of the world s population, with Europeans reduced to 6 .

World population was approximately 5 million.

Canadians make up about 0.5 of the world's total population.

One fourth of the world's population is subject to severe poverty.

The Population Reference Bureau estimates that by 2050, only 30 of the global population will remain in rural areas.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

Hans Rosling on global population growth

More than half the world s population lives in cities.

Oceans are of enormous value to the world's population.

In fact, it amounts to less than 6 of the world s population which is to say that 94 of the population would not be inundated.

With 3 of the world s population, the US can no longer dominate the rest of the world, because Asians, with 60 of the world s population, are no longer underperforming.

The world population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine and the Black Death in 1350, when it was near 370 million.

And the goal became halving the proportion of people in the developing world, which makes a big difference, because the developing world s population is growing faster than the population of the world as a whole.

The world s population is about six billion.

Like a third of the world s population, I use social media.

More than 78 of the urban population in the world s least developed countries, and one third of the global urban population, lives in slums.

It has also been recorded that the world already produces enough food to support the world's population.

In the last century, the world s population increased four fold, and the number of people living in cities thirteen fold.

But most of the world s population does not.

Today, almost half the world's population is less than 25 years old.

People under 24 now make up almost half the world's population.

This figure represents more than one per cent of the world's population.

Rice is the staple food for more than half the world's population.

In 2011 the world's population will exceed 7 billion people.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim dominated nation.

They are symptomatic of many grave threats the people of the world face today.

So if a third of the world population is going to increase its meat consumption from 25 to 80 on average, and a third of the world population is living in China and in India, we're having an enormous demand on meat.

In 1900, Europe accounted for a quarter of the world s population.

Dynamics of population ageing how can Asia and the Pacific respond?

19 percent of the world's population today, Westerners own two thirds of its wealth.

This is Africa. 10 percent the world population, most in poverty.

Noting that rice is the staple food of more than half of the world's population,

However, the world s black populations are the prime victims.

In 1800, Asia represented more than half of global population and output.

In 1800, Asia represented half the world s population and half the world s economy.

The CIA World Fact Book considers 56.2 of the population of Guatemala to be living in poverty.

India, which has one sixth of the world's population, is on a rapid economic growth path.

Existing arsenals of nuclear weapons alone are more than sufficient to annihilate the entire population of the world.

A year ago, the leaders of the world s richest countries committed themselves to alleviating the plight of the poorest.

By 2050, Earth s population will be more than nine billion, and more than two thirds will live in urban areas.

This may well be the case for Japan, which has a rapidly aging population.

Following a trend that has been occurring in Brazil and in the rest of the world for several decades, the rural population as a whole is decreasing both in absolute numbers and in terms of ratio of the Brazilian population.