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

And there's predictions that we'll be nine billion by 2050.

In Africa, the median age is now a mere 19 years and is projected to rise to around 28 years in 2050.

Data from the 2000 census show a soaring Hispanic population, owing largely to waves of new immigrants, legal and illegal.

As a result of high fertility rates in Africa, the UN Population Division predicts a doubling of Africa's population from around 900 million today to around 1.8 billion in 2050.

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

The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050.

Let us presume, finally, that by 2050, all electricity production has made the transition to low carbon energy sources.

By 2050, there will most likely be more than nine billion people.

Keep in mind that global energy demand will double by 2050.

Nevertheless, according to Goldman Sachs, by 2050 Mexico will have the 5th largest economy in the world.

The population had swiftly increased to 100,000 by 1915 and to 200,000 by 1952.

With the transition from a high fertility regime to one of low population growth in developed and developing countries alike, the numbers of the elderly were expected to treble by 2050 and one third of them to be living in developing countries by 2030.

By 2050, it s going to be a column and will start to invert.

By 2030, only Germany will still be on the list, and by 2050, none will remain.

Today, the share of urbanites is around 53 and is likely to rise to around 67 by 2050.

Demographers portray a country in 2050 in which non Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority.

Obama s federal budget establishes a target of 14 reductions from 2005 levels by 2020, with an 83 cut by 2050 (the administration has properly chosen 2005, rather than 1990, as a baseline.)

According to health statistician Hans Rosling, our planet will probably be home to at least nine billion people by 2050.

Population According to the 2008 Revision of the official United Nations population estimates and projections, the world population is projected to reach 7 billion early in 2012, up from the current 6.9 billion (May 2009), to exceed 9 billion people by 2050.

The agency is supporting the 2000 watt society initiative to cut the nation's energy use by more than half by the year 2050.

Most developed countries are targeting reductions in annual emissions of at least 80 relative to levels in 1990 by 2050.

An even faster rate of increase is expected in the next 50 years, raising the number of persons in this age group to over 1.2 billion by 2050, nearly one quarter of the population.

The European Climate Foundation s Roadmap 2050 shows that full decarbonization of the EU power sector by 2050 is feasible and affordable.

By 1900, the black population had doubled and reached 8.8 million.

In 2001 it was estimated at 40 of the population, while by 2011 the figure dropped to 17.4 of the total population.

What is being asked is that global emissions be less than half their 1990 levels by 2050, having peaked before 2020.

By the year 2000, 60 of the population was connected to a sewer system.

By 2009, the total population had grown to about six million.

Five years ago, Britain broke the international mold by enacting legislation mandating an 80 cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Moreover, the Himalayan glaciers that feed Pakistan s rivers may melt by 2050, owing to global warming.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that unless adaptive measures are taken, climate change is projected to approximately double by the 2050s the percentage of its population at risk of hunger and associated health effects.

This will require a cut in annual global emissions from about 50 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent today to below 35 gigatonnes in 2030, and less than 20 gigatonnes by 2050.

When people talk about the need to increase global food production to feed those nine billion people that are expected on the planet by 2050, I always think of these graphs.

The United Nations predicts that by 2030, 80 of the population will be urban.

Window on Eurasia writes that, according to a Kremlin adviser, more than half of the population of the Russia will be Muslim in 2050.

For example, Pakistan, an already arid country, will suffer under the pressures of a rapidly rising population, which has grown from 42 million in 1950 to 184 million in 2010, and may increase further to 335 million in 2050, according to the UN s medium scenario.

If Denmark were indeed to become 100 fossil free by 2050, and remain so for the rest of the century, the effect, by 2100, would be to delay the rise in average global temperature by just two weeks.

This is the magnitude of the reduction the entire global technosphere must realize by 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate disruption so the scientists are telling us.

The G 8 s declaration that its members will reduce carbon emissions by 80 in 2050 contains no upfront commitments. And the clock is ticking.

Without the decisions taken 20 years ago, atmospheric levels of ozone depleting substances would have increased ten fold by 2050.

Obama s plan would reduce emissions by 80 below 1990 levels by 2050, while McCain aims to ensure that emissions are 60 lower by then.

Ketiga, perjanjian harus menetapkan landasan bagi transformasi ekonomi secara fundamental, dengan segera memulai deep decarbonization untuk membentuk masyarakat nihil karbon pada tahun 2050.

The urban population increased from 31 of the total population in 1938, to 57 in 1951 and about 70 by 1990.

And food shortages could grow much worse, as world population is expected to reach nine billion by 2050 or earlier.