Globally, a total of 2.5 billion people (26% of global population) will be affected by living near polluted rivers (BOD >5 mg/l) in the year 2050, up from 1.1 billion people (19%) in the year 2000.
It has also raised its estimate of global population growth.
Encyclopedia of global population and demographics / Immanuel Ness, James Ciment.
Top of them is the onset of global population ageing.
With only 4.27percentt of global population, the United States has 24.4percentt of global GDP.
The encyclopedia of global population and demographics / Immanuel Ness, James Ciment.
Or, is the increasing number of famous people just a consequence of global population growth?
The U.S., with only 5percentt of global population, consumes 80percentt of the world's opioids.
More than half of global population growth between now and 2050 is expected to take place in Africa.
The top 600 cities in the world contain just 20% of global population but create 60% of global GDP.
The top 600 world cities contained just 20% of global population, but they created 60% of global GDP.
