In fifteen years, and perhaps as few as ten, its population will peak and then rapidly fall off.
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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While the city population has shrunk (from a peak population of 1.8 million in 1950 to 714, 000 in the last census), it has hardly reduced the government that serves it.
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Development groups are nervous about attempts to define a hierarchy of global problems with population at the peak.
Others have dropped out of the money economy and rely on barter, through an exchange network that drew in as much as a third of the population at its peak earlier this year.
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Of course, we do need to consider all of the possibilities but over the decades actual out turns have been at the low estimate or below: which is why peak population in these predictions has been falling over those decades.
Known today, rather prosaically, as Angkor Archaeological Park, the 150-square-mile site was the political and cultural centre of the Khmer empire and at its peak supported a population of one million.
The population of Detroit, at its peak, in the early nineteen-fifties, was 1.8 million people.
However, the employment-population ratio reached its most recent peak of 63.4% in December 2006, and then began to decline.
The Scottish population had been falling steadily from a peak of 5, 227, 000 in the mid-1970s to 5, 055, 000 in 2002, but has been rising since.
The island has a population of just 55 and, at its peak, the school had 11 pupils.
It isn't clear how much demand there would be for his planned 800, 000 square feet of office space in the Rust Belt city that has seen its population fall to 198, 000 from its peak of 290, 000 in 1960.
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As the global population increases, economies develop and natural gas supplies peak, the International Energy Agency predicts coal usage will increase globally, with the major Asian economies including China and India responsible for most of the increase.
The sea lion population seems to have rebounded all the way to its natural peak.
It also said the new development would increase traffic at peak times in the village, which has a population of 5, 600, by "less than 1%".
The unemployment rate has dropped more than 40% of the way back to its pre-recession level, but the employment-to-population ratio is closer to its trough than its pre-recession peak.
From its peak in the mid-1970s, the ratio of oil revenue to population moved against Venezuela, partly because migrants flooded in from poorer neighbouring countries.
Despite high price, however, population growth has resulted in a 44% decline of real oil revenue per capita since the 1980 price peak.
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