CITB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter PDF: United Nations Secretariat, Population Ageing, 6 Years
Document Summary
World population prospects - key findings: united nations. United nations population estimates and projections, which have been prepared since 1951 by the population division of the department of economic and social affairs of the united. Nations secretariat: the 2017 revision builds on previous revisions by incorporating additional results from the. 2010 and 2020 rounds of national population censuses as well as findings from recent specialized sample surveys from around the world. Sixty percent of the world"s people live in asia (4. 5 billion), 17% in africa (1. 3 billion), Oceania, where growth is projected to be much more modest. In the medium-variant projection, europe is the only region with a smaller population in. In sharp contrast, the populations of another 51 countries or areas of the world are expected to decrease between 2017 and 2050. Several countries are expected to see their populations decline by more than 15% by. 2050, including bulgaria, croatia, latvia, lithuania, poland, republic of moldova,
