These startling projections would also mean that within 25 years Britain would overtake France as the second most populous country in the European Union and be close behind Germany's shrinking population of 76 million.
Deep inside a data dump by the Census Bureau last week was a startling racial projection: By midcentury, the United States will be home to 80 million more white people.
Everybody knows that many countries' populations are ageing, but the figures can still be startling: recent projections from Paternoster, an insurance company, suggest that as many as half of the 30-year-olds in Britain could live to see their hundredth birthday.
Whatever the view, the projections are startling.
Their projections are fairly startling: And to the extent that we believe advanced countries will suffer from the burden of large elderly populations, France will suffer less: Germany should enjoy its hegemony while it lasts; Europe's future, such as it is, may belong to France.
Museums have put towns on the map before -- the Guggenheim Bilbao, for instance -- but the projections for Bentonville are startling.
Urbanisation intensifies the challenge: today more than half the world's population live in cities, but projections for the future are startling.
I am struck by a simpler thought, sitting here in Brussels: the UN projections, if borne out by reality, would imply a startling shift in the EU's balance of power.
And in Strauss's actual dream scene, in Act II, he showed the Empress in bed as if from above, superimposing film projections on a scrim in front of her: an imaginative yet unobtrusive use of technology to startling effect.
At the inquests, lawyerly detail was focused on the few, startling internal documents produced by the force from 2010 in the public disclosure process to the Hillsborough Independent Panel, evidential foundations for the projection of blame.
