The National Population and Family Planning Commission estimates the population will peak in 2033, when there will be 1.5 billion Chinese.
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The Chinese government's population-planning commission forecasts another 100m rural residents could move to cities by 2020.
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Conservation efforts have led to an increase in the manatee population, the commission said, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on a rule that would reclassify the manatee from endangered to threatened.
Liu Zhi, director of the municipal commission for population and family planning, told China Daily on Saturday that the city plans to start extensive research into the characteristics of the urban population.
The proposals by the Boundary Commission aim to standardise the population numbers within each constituency.
Only 55% of the eligible population is registered to vote, despite the Electoral Commission of Zambia extending the registration by five weeks earlier in the year.
The Forestry Commission said 80% of the black grouse population was concentrated in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
However, the fisheries ministry believes there is no ecological reason to cancel a hunt for 40 minkes when the population in the North Atlantic is believed by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to number about 174, 000.
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills says Britain's ageing population means we can expect to see a huge rise in the number of people working in the care industry in the future, and that the retail, catering and financial industries are also likely to pick up again, employing more people.
The Election Commission said about 80% of the 13.3 million eligible voters, from a population of 28 million, exercised their franchise, higher than the 76% who voted in the 2008 general election.
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It points to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, which in 1999 concluded that a mere 0.6% of America's adult population had serious problems with gambling.
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