Increasing population across the world
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
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Uneducated population across the world
- Today, nearly 17% of the world’s adult population is still not literate; two thirds of them women, making gender equality even harder to achieve.
- The scale of illiteracy among youth also represents an enormous challenge; an estimated 122 million youth globally are illiterate, of which young women represent 60.7%.
- The 67.4 million children who are out of school are likely to encounter great difficulties in the future, as deficient or non-existent basic education is the root cause of illiteracy.
- With some 775 million adults lacking minimum literacy skills, literacy for all thus remains elusive.
Children population across the world
Since the beginning of the age of the Enlightenment and over the course
of modernization, the mortality of children below 5 years of age has
declined rapidly. Child mortality in rich countries today is much lower
than 1%. This is a very recent development and was only reached after a
hundredfold decline in child mortality in these countries. In
early-modern times, child mortality was very high; in 18th century
Sweden every third child died, and in 19th century Germany every second
child died. With declining poverty and increasing knowledge and service
in the health sector, child mortality around the world is declining very
rapidly. Big countries like Brazil and China reduced their child
mortality rates 10-fold over the last 4 decades. Other countries –
especially in Africa – still have high child mortality rates, but its
not true that these countries are not making progress. In Sub-Saharan
Africa, child mortality has been continuously falling for the last 50
years (1 in 4 children died in the early 60s – today it is less than 1
in 10). Over the last decade this improvement has been happening faster
than ever before. Rising prosperity, rising education and the spread of
health care around the globe are the major drivers of this progress.
Ladies population across the word
Women and girls comprise just over half of Canada's population. In
2010, 17.2 million females accounted for 50.4% of the total population,
continuing a slim female majority that has held for over three decades
(Table 1). In the data recorded from 1921 to 1971, the percentage of
males was slightly higher than that of females. In 1921, 48.5% of the
population was female, rising to 49.8% in 1971. Over the past century,
gains in life expectancy have benefited women more than men. Lower
mortality rates for females throughout most of the life course
contributed to a slightly higher share of females than males in the
population. According to the medium-growth scenario of the most recent
population projections, the female majority would continue for the next
50 years.
Increasing population across the world
In demographics and general statistics, the term world population refers to the total number of living humans on Earth. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the world population exceeded 7 billion on March 12, 2012.According to a separate estimate by the United Nations Population Fund, it reached this milestone on October 31, 2011. In July 2015, the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs estimated the world population at approximately 7.3 billion.
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. The highest growth rates – global population increases above 1.8% per year – occurred briefly during the 1950s, and for longer during the 1960s and 1970s. The global growth rate peaked at 2.2% in 1963, and has declined to 1.1% as of 2012.Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 139 million,and are now expected to remain essentially constant at their 2011 level of 135 million, while deaths number 56 million per year, and are expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040.
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. The highest growth rates – global population increases above 1.8% per year – occurred briefly during the 1950s, and for longer during the 1960s and 1970s. The global growth rate peaked at 2.2% in 1963, and has declined to 1.1% as of 2012.Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 139 million,and are now expected to remain essentially constant at their 2011 level of 135 million, while deaths number 56 million per year, and are expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040.
| Continent | Density (inhabitants/km2) |
Population (millions, 2013 estimates) |
Most populous country | Most populous city (metropolitan area) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia | 96.4 | 4,298 | ||
| Africa | 36.7 | 1,111 | ||
| Europe | 72.9 | 742 | approx. 110 million in Europe) |
|
| North America[26] | 22.9 | 565 | ||
| South America | 22.8 | 407 | ||
| Oceania | 4.5 | 38 | ||
| Antarctica | 0.0003 (varies) |
0.004 in summer (non-permanent, varies) |
McMurdo Station (1,200) (non-permanent, varies) |
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