population
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World’s Population Reaches 8 Billion People for the First Time — and That’s Fine!
Sometime today, November 15, the 8 billionth human on Earth is projected to be born. It could be happening right now, as I write this (or you read this). Or maybe it happened hours ago. But regardless of the exact second, today we officially enter a world with an estimated 8 billion people in it,…
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U.S. Life Expectancy Has Biggest Fall Since WWII Amid Covid-19 and Drug Overdoses
As expected, the first year of the covid-19 pandemic has lowered the collective life expectancy of Americans. Researchers from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that life expectancy at birth dropped 1.5 years from 2019 to 2020, with most of the decline attributed to the pandemic. The drop is the…
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What’s The Ideal Number Of Humans On Earth?
Earth might be looking a little worse for wear, after the last four-hundred years of reckless wide-scale resource extraction, but to its credit it hasn’t collapsed entirely. Despite our best efforts, it continues to gamely welcome our rapidly expanding population, barring the occasional earthquake. Whether the planet might be a little better off with fewer…
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See The Exact Moment When The World’s Biggest Cities Were Born
Video: The world is urbanizing faster than ever, with more than half of the planet’s population currently living in cities — more than any time in history. But when did this trend of “urbanisation” start? It turns out its roots go back much farther than we thought.