population growth

Melbourne Fastest Growing Capital

Armen Hareyan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:22:44 -0500

Official figures show Melbourne had the greatest population growth of any capital city last financial year as the city records the largest growth in human capital.

Population growth puts dent in natural resources

harminka — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:04:23 -0500

It's a 500-pound gorilla that Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, sees standing on the speaker's dais at political rallies, debates and campaigns. Its name is population growth.

Immigration fuelling population growth in Australia

seher — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:11:37 -0500

Record numbers of skilled workers migrating to Australia have helped make immigration account for more than half of the country's latest population growth.

Sub-Saharan Africa, population emergency

harminka — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:41:39 -0600

Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing phenomenal population growth since the beginning of the XXth Century, following several centuries of population stagnation attributable to the slave trade and colonization. The region’s population in fact increased from 100 million in 1900 to 770 million in 2005.

Canada's foreign-born population at 75-year peak

Armen Hareyan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:23:13 -0600

Immigrants population in Canada have grown four times faster with one in five people in the country last year was born in another country, the highest proportion since the 1930s.

China's 1-child policy could backfire on its elderly

harminka — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:03:24 -0500

China’s efforts to control population growth in the present may cause problems for the county’s senior citizens in the future.

HIV's impact in Zimbabwe explored in new research

harminka — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:51:49 -0500

The impact of HIV in Zimbabwe since the early 1980s is explored in new research published this week in the journal PNAS.

Population of India to reach 1.5 billion by 2025

Armen Hareyan — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:14:02 -0500

The population of India is likely to reach around 1.5 billion by 2025, according to a United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) projection.

Some Chinese families allowed to have two children

Dinka — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:27:12 -0500

Chinese authorities have liberalized the country's birth-control policy allowing urban families to have two children in some circumstances, the Xinhua news agency quoted a senior official at the family planning commission as saying Wednesday.

Half of world's population will live in cities by next year

Dinka — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:02:30 -0500

More than half of humanity – 3.3 billion people – will be living in cities by 2008 and by 2030, some 5 billion will live there, according to a U.N. report set to be released Wednesday.

Violent Protests over China's One-Child Policy Resume

Dinka — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:04:24 -0500

Resentment toward China's one-child policy has led to a second round of violent protests in southwestern China's Guangxi Province. Joseph Popiolkowski reports from Hong Kong that peasants there are seeking refunds of fines imposed on them for having more children than allowed.

Bulgaria has lowest population growth in Europe, statistics institute says

Dinka — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:05:26 -0500

Bulgaria's population has dropped by 1 million to 7.7 million since the end of communist rule in 1989, a nearly catastrophic decrease in such a small country.