We believe that continued high levels of population growth, demographic shift and growing middle-class in Asia Pacific region will continue to offer DuPont an expanding market for its Agricultural based products over our forecast period.

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Nationwide, nonwhites are expected to become a majority of the population within a generation, and schools are at the cutting edge of that historic shift.

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And the aging of our population is an even more dramatic shift than its increasingly tan hue.

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The first is the ever-more-pronounced shift in the burden of disease among the U.S. population from acute to chronic conditions.

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The business depends on exports for 50% of its business, and the other 50% may not be so secure given that a stronger yen and an aging population are leading some companies to shift production out of Japan, including the likes of Toyota Motor.

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While the shift is partly the result of the bulging U.S. Latino population over that time, it also reflects a changing U.S. job market.

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Subdivide the African population, as some taxonomists propose, and perceptions of scarcity may shift.

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China has already experienced a tremendous population shift from its farms and rural areas to the cities in search of higher paying jobs.

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National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.

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