Hans Rosling on global population growth

Global debates about population policy are confusing.

Today, we remain mostly unconcerned about global population growth.

From 1950 to 1980, the north accounted for almost 80 of global GDP but only 22 of its population, and the south accounted for the remainder of global population and 20 global income.

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

Global and interregional population activities have been receiving an increasingly larger share of total population assistance over the years.

Current estimates put the global population at between 20,000 and 25,000.

By 2050, the global human population is expected to exceed nine billion.

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

Since the Copenhagen negotiations, the global population has passed 7 billion people.

The current global population is estimated to be up to 500,000 individuals.

Reducing global population is implausible, and deliberately reducing the size of the global economy would result in increased hardship for billions.

The global Internet population (over 712 million in 2003) continues to experience strong growth.

Table 2 Projection of global domestic expenditures for population activities, by region, 2003 2005

It is based on the proportion of each Member State's population relative to the global population of all Member States, using the Population and Vital Statistics Report of the United Nations.

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.

Moreover, China s aging population, and its strategy of boosting domestic consumption, will negatively affect global savings.

Table 2 presents estimates and projections of global domestic expenditures for population activities for 2003 2005.

In 2004, some two thirds of the global refugee population remained in limbo in protracted situations.

Actually only 15 of the world population get most of the benefits of a global economy.

In a globalized world, global challenges largely require global responses, which are impossible if a country of China s size and population and wealth does not participate.

But the human population has almost doubled since 1970, while the global economy has grown even faster.

When the United States is included, 11.5 of the global population receives 88 of the world s welfare payments.

Although China accounts for 20 of the world s population, its share of global GDP currently is only 7 .

The direct ecological footprint of the livestock population is larger than that of the human population, with rapidly rising global meat consumption becoming a key driver of water stress by itself.

30 percent decrease of production in the context of increasing population, that's a food crisis. It's global in nature.

The United Nations estimates that the continent will account for more than 40 of global population growth through 2030, with the working age population expected to surpass that of China by 2040.

Together, they account for 42 of world population and one third of global economic growth in the past ten years.

The global numbers are expected to continue increasing as risk factors remain common and the population continues to get older.

And it represents the ability of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects.

Essentially, we were excluding almost half the world s population from production. In 1900, only 15 of the global workforce was female.

Most estimates suggest that global warming will put 3 more of the earth s population at risk of catching malaria by 2100.

At its high water mark, the US, with 5 of the world s population, accounted for close to 30 of global GDP.

Vivian Fouad, coordinator of the National Programme Against FGM, speaking to Global Voices at her office in the National Population Council.

It is considered a global city and has a population larger than other countries in the United Kingdom besides England itself.

How will global climate change alter climates at the regional level? For example, given that monsoons provide water to more than half of the global population, any change could have a dramatic impact.

A recent study conducted by the International Foundation for Global Economic Development reveals that, since 2000, the economically active population (EAP) has tended to increase for demographic reasons, owing to a change in the ratio between the population reaching working age and the population reaching retirement age.

This, in turn, reflects global economic and population growth, with resulting shortages of critical resources fuel, food, and clean air and water.

The world is struggling to fight climate change, sustain a growing global population, and find decent jobs for millions of young people.

Moreover, in 2002 they published an article in Women's Struggle on Low birth rate in the context of the Global Population Problem .

The latter accounts for 90 of global GDP and two thirds of the world s population, so this shift is highly desirable indeed, essential.

Accounting for only 15 of the world's population, they cause 50 of global carbon dioxide emissions with all their implications for climate change.

By 2050, global food production will have to increase by 60 to meet demand from a growing world population with changing consumption habits.

By contrast, the United States and the European Union account for 54 of global GDP, despite having only 12 of the world s population.

Winner of many national photo competitions, Shrestha told Global Voices The butterfly habitat is decreasing day by day due to increasing human population.