The Chinese government's population-planning commission forecasts another 100m rural residents could move to cities by 2020.
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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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VisitEngland said about 6% of the adult population were planning a break in the UK involving at least one overnight stay this Easter.
The Shanghai Population and Family Planning Committee says that more than a third of the city's population will be over 60 by 2020.
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.
Family planning and urbanisation have reduced net population growth from 2.8% a year in the 1980s to 2.1% today.
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It ignores both the capacity of a given area to accommodate population sustainably and the very great success of the planning system in ensuring that people wish to live in all parts of the country.
It seems likely that less than 10% of the population has the ability to avoid the pitfalls of retirement planning.
In Kenya, for example, as a result of diminished financial support for family planning and increasing fertility, the country's projected population in 2050 is set to reach 83m, from 54m.
The report mentions other long-term priorities such as ensuring transport links, improving island infrastructure such as the roads, harbours and broadband access and speed, security of energy supply and planning for increasing health and pension costs due to an ageing population.
The court heard that Mr George had an IQ of 75, in the lowest 5% of the population, and scored in the bottom 1% for tests of memory, planning and carrying out tasks.
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, speaking of northern New Jersey's population drop-off.
Planning is complicated by the fact that the far-flung sprawl of the population makes it difficult to develop any cohesive blueprint.
"For decades the planning system has not been delivering enough land to meet the housing needs of our population, " he says.
In the case of the 32 small states of the Commonwealth and 12 other states with a population of 1.5m or fewer (four other beneficiaries are slightly larger), such planning can now include insurance for all outstanding financial liabilities for three years after the event.
"Large, fast-growing cities like Los Angeles suddenly decant population out to smaller cities inland, " says Robert Bruegmann, a professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of Illinois.
This is an idea that's been debated for decades - at least since London's massive expansion in the inter-war period, when planning rules didn't really exist and London became "Greater London", with a much greater population to match.
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