The increase in world population by 2050 will be around 30%, less than in the 40 years to 2010, when it rose by over 80%.
That makes it 222nd in the world in terms of population growth.
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This is a critical success factor when managing and leading major transformational changes that include rapid growth in third-world countries, and in the global population, as well as a huge increase in the number of people connecting online around the world.
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Mr McGuinness said that as the fifth largest country in the world and with a population in excess of 191m people, Brazil was "a key market for us".
The very success of many parts of the world in limiting population has sapped donors' enthusiasm.
As in much of the developing world, population growth in India has become heavily concentrated in the poorest areas with large populations.
India is the second-largest country in the world by population.
The forecast rise in world's population, from just under 7 billion at the start of 2011 to just over 9 billion in 2050, is the equivalent of two extra Indias.
Thanks to the simultaneous growth in the total world population, the average population of a country has not declined greatly: it is down from around 32m in 1946 to 29m today.
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It has to be regarded as a powerful new force in a world where population growth and competition for resources have changed the economic and political ground rules for ever, apparently crippling the ability of old-style free-market economics to deliver growth.
It is yet another demonstration of the appeal of free institutions, in this case to people with East Asian value systems and in a country with the largest Muslim population in the world.
Since Malthus wrote his first edition in 1798, the world has grown both in population and prosperity.
Turkmenistan has the fifth-largest deposits of natural gas in the world but most of its population live in abject poverty.
Malthus famously argued that in a world in which economies grew arithmetically and population grew geometrically, mass want would be inevitable.
Kansas City is one of only 15 cities with a population of at least 200, 000 in 1950 that saw substantial population losses since World War II but have rebounded in recent years, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by Jordan Rappaport, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
In 1800, Yangzhou was one of 10 cities in the world with a population over 500, 000.
If you do the math, at this rate, by 2016, we will have the entire world population in the Stoos movement!
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America is already the third most populous country in the world and its population is projected to grow to over 400m by mid-century, virtually all the growth coming from immigration.
Approximately one-half of the world's population lives in rural areas, according to the World Health Organization, and most of them usually lack trained health care workers.
Yet such legitimate concerns should not be allowed to detract from the basic progress that has occurred: in the past 20 years the share of the world's population living in proper democracies has risen from about a third to just over half.
By then, England was the first country in the world where the majority of the population would be living in cities (albeit riddled with tuberculosis, for which a winter visit to the Alps in due course became de rigueur).
There have been almost 40 new communicable diseases identified in the last 30 years, he notes, and more will likely arise as a growing world population brings people in closer contact with each other and disease-bearing animals.
But they're also among the rarest raptors in the world, with an estimated population of about a thousand pairs, most of which are probably in the Falklands, where on nearly inaccessible islands near Cape Horn.
But despite that rapid growth, in 2005 this global middle class accounted for only 6% of the world's population and in 2030 it will still make up only 15%.
At 1.34 billion, it is by far, home to the largest population in the world.
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We are rapidly evolving into a country with the largest, best-educated retiree investor population in the world.
With the largest rural population in the world, India is perhaps the primary market for the iSlate and similar products.
The ferrets escaped into the wild and thrived to the extent that New Zealand has the largest wild population in the world.
But in a graying world a youthful population, decently schooled and with opportunities to use that knowledge, can be a great asset.
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