• By 2050, an estimated two-thirds of the world's population will live in urban areas, imposing even more pressure on the space infrastructure and resources of cities, leading to social disintegration and horrific urban poverty," says Werner Fornos, president of the Washington-based institute. (bbc.co.uk)
  • A large part of the world's population does have access to food, but this food is not nutritious as it lacks vitamins and minerals. (wur.nl)
  • A growing proportion of the world's population is overweight or obese due to a combination of consuming the wrong kind of food containing excessive calories with too little exercise. (wur.nl)
  • The world's population is growing rapidly. (wur.nl)
  • Digital devices are permeating the lives of a rising number of the world's population in more and more profound ways. (lu.se)
  • WICHITA, Kan. - Today, the National Wildlife Federation and Beesponsible® announced the launch of "Don't Kill My Buzz," a social advocacy campaign aimed at reversing the decline of bee populations and promoting bee-friendly, pesticide-free gardening and conservation efforts. (nwf.org)
  • But bee populations have been declining at alarming rates.This campaign deals with the issue head-on to educate people on the role they play in the decline and the actions they can take to reverse it. (nwf.org)
  • In which case, the census-counted population may be smaller than previously reported, but not actually in decline yet. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • Identifying the location of areas experiencing high population growth or decline can reveal some of the forces shaping contemporary patterns of human settlement. (abs.gov.au)
  • Agriculture and food markets are plagued with inefficiencies that have dramatic consequences for the welfare of the world's most vulnerable populations. (imf.org)
  • Estimated at 43 million in 2010, the population of elderly people in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to reach 67 million by 2025 and 163 million by 2050. (who.int)
  • although Africa has the youngest population structure of any major area, in absolute terms it will see the number of people aged 60 years or over increase from 46 million in 2015 to 147 million in 2050. (who.int)
  • Food-calorie production will have to expand by 70 percent by 2050 to keep up with a global population that's forecast to grow to 9.7 billion from last year's 7.3 billion. (imf.org)
  • According to an investigation carried out by the U.S. State Department in 2002, "UNFPA's support of, and involvement in, China's population-planning activities allows the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion," in the words of then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The latest Chinese census may reveal that China's population has shrunk for the first time in over fifty years, according to a report by The Financial Times. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • The census results, which were originally expected to be released this month but have been delayed, are expected to show that China's population has dipped below 1.4 billion, two years after it reportedly reached that mark. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • In 2019, China's population was reported to have exceeded the 1.4bn mark. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • Signs of a major slowdown in China's population growth have been evident for some time. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • The demographic trends in China were already obvious before this announcement, but this news confirms fears that China's population shrinkage continues despite relaxation of its population policies," said Mary Gallagher, director of the University of Michigan's International Institute and author of Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers, and the State. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • Labor shortages in manufacturing and the rapid ageing of China's population were noticed nearly two decades ago," she said. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • The ageing of human populations is an inescapable demographic future. (ipsnews.net)
  • We know that the demographic transition to older populations will occur, and we can plan to make the most of it. (who.int)
  • KKP Research, a research house under Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group, issued a report finding Thailand's rapidly changing demographic structure has deteriorated the country's economic expansion over the past several years, with this challenge creating more economic pressure in the longer term. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Analysts say that the signs have been clear that a demographic crisis is looming in China - and that officials there have not always been honest about the population numbers they present. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • The term rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis was first used to describe a group of patients who had an unusually fulminant poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis and a poor clinical outcome. (medscape.com)
  • In the mid 1970s, a group of patients was described who fit the clinical criteria for rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis but in whom no cause could be established. (medscape.com)
  • Pregnant women are sited as populations with special clinical needs or at risk in the 2013 Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act or PAHPRA. (cdc.gov)
  • While most countries in the world have made the transition from high to low rates of deaths and births, many countries, largely in Africa, face the challenges of high fertility rates that are resulting in rapidly growing populations. (ipsnews.net)
  • Rapid urbanization and galloping population growth, especially in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, haven't been matched by increases in domestic food supplies, leading to growing dependence on imports. (imf.org)
  • With Africa's largest population, its largest economy and its largest city what happens in Nigeria affects what happens in Africa. (bvsalud.org)
  • Healthcare costs are expected to surge as the population of senior citizens increases. (newsblaze.com)
  • The number of the population increases rapidly. (newadvent.org)
  • Sydney and Melbourne had the largest increases in population: Sydney's population increased by 271,700, and Melbourne's by 204,200. (abs.gov.au)
  • The latest report of an increase in the world's global tiger population is based on the compilation of greater and better data due to these improved monitoring efforts, rather than valid, scientific evidence of tiger population increases," Goodrich said in a statement. (mongabay.com)
  • Steady increases in Africa's working age population, improved economic productivity, and enhanced job creation can turn the region into an economic powerhouse accompanied with improvements in quality of life more broadly. (brookings.edu)
  • A 2010 study found that more than 70 percent of the world's tigers survive at 42 "source sites" or sites where "tigers occur at high densities, and which are likely to produce 'surplus' animals that can disperse and expand populations. (mongabay.com)
  • The Cuban population is aging rapidly and both the number of people of working age and women of reproductive age are decreasing, according to officials from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI). (babalublog.com)
  • Despite that self-evident relationship, most governments appear reluctant to accept the intimate link between the supplies of food and the numbers of people and continue calling for the further growth of their populations. (ipsnews.net)
  • Has the death rate from drug overdoses in the U.S. increased most rapidly among young people over the last decade and a half? (cdc.gov)
  • It is estimated that in the coming decades, China is predicted to be the most aged population on earth with more than 400 million people over 60. (newsblaze.com)
  • Bombay, home to about 18 million people, will over the next two decades see its population grow to about 28.5 million, according to the Washington-based Population Institute, in its annual overview of world population trends. (bbc.co.uk)
  • But at the end of the century, Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles were the only industrialised cities to feature on the list of the 19 cities which have populations of at least 10 million people. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Our goal is to bring attention to plummeting bee populations and inspire people to do something to help," said Jessica Cummings, communications director for Beesponsible. (nwf.org)
  • Economies are globalizing, more and more people live and work in cities, family patterns are changing and technology is evolving rapidly. (who.int)
  • The latest Chinese census, which was completed in December but has yet to be made public, is expected to report the total population of the country at less than 1.4bn, according to people familiar with the research. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • The population expanded under the one-child policy introduced in the late 1970s, thanks to a bulging population of young people in the aftermath of the Communist revolution as well as increased life expectancy. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • According to the International Diabetes Federation, there are about 2.3 million people with diabetes in Ukraine, which is about 7.1% of the population. (medscape.com)
  • 450 butterfly species rapidly declining due to warmer autumns in the western U.S. (kalw.org)
  • A generally north to south spreading direction was found in these B. hybridum populations, towards a drier and warmer climate exhibiting higher moisture deficit for plant growth. (osti.gov)
  • In your paper you are to: (a) discuss the growth of the nursing home industry, (b) determine if the current supply of long-term care facilities will be sufficient to meet the rapidly expanding elderly population, and (c) discuss the overall quality of care in these facilities. (qualityhomeworkanswers.com)
  • Thailand's elderly population is growing rapidly. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Thai households have a relatively low rate of savings, unlikely to meet future living requirements of the elderly population, said Jinanggoon Rojananan, deputy secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC). (bangkokpost.com)
  • The National Wildlife Federation is America's largest conservation organization, uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world. (nwf.org)
  • She told Climate News Network: "The health of both human and wildlife populations in the Arctic is deeply intertwined, perhaps more so than in other geographies, It is likely we will see much, much more of this disease as contaminated areas that were once marked are now long forgotten. (truthdig.com)
  • As a fourth issue, an area of extraordinary activity is in the use of transmission models to analyse interventions for infectious diseases, including population-wide effects of vaccination. (nih.gov)
  • Providing TB screening and preventive interventions to high-risk populations is the plan's top priority. (cdc.gov)
  • You'll find information for specific diseases and target populations, as well as policies and recommendations from the AAFP, American Academy of Pediatrics and CDC. (aafp.org)
  • In this instance, the vice president of ONEI stated the preliminary population of Cuba as of the end of March 2023 is 11,082,964, a figure slightly lower than the 11,089,500 Cuban residents announced by the official himself in February. (babalublog.com)
  • 15. South Korea - South Korea's healthcare system is funded through the mandatory National Health Insurance Scheme, and covers around 97% of the country's population. (businessinsider.com)
  • I estimate the current resident population of the island to be around ten and a half million," said historian, essayist, and collaborator at La Joven Cuba, Mario Valdés Navia, three months ago in an interview with an American agency. (babalublog.com)
  • While some countries employ rigorous camera trap or DNA surveys to estimate size of tiger populations, others use unreliable and unscientific methods such as counting tiger pugmarks or droppings. (mongabay.com)
  • Joseph Chamie is a consulting demographer, a former director of the United Nations Population Division and author of numerous publications on population issues, including his recent book, "Births, Deaths, Migrations and Other Important Population Matters. (ipsnews.net)
  • Professor Claire Heffernan, a specialist in infectious diseases at the School of Veterinary Science at the University of Bristol , UK, has previously warned of the impact of changes in climate on disease in animal and human populations in the Arctic region. (truthdig.com)
  • Immunizations can prevent the spread of contagious and sometimes deadly diseases, particularly among at-risk populations such as young children and older adults. (aafp.org)
  • this approach is now being broadly applied to model situations where populations of patients interact with healthcare delivery systems. (nih.gov)
  • Advances in technology allow more realistic and complex healthcare models to be simulated more rapidly. (nih.gov)
  • It is time for countries, especially those with slow growing and ageing human populations, to welcome androids , i.e., humanoid robots with human-like appearance and behavior, including speech, sight, hearing, mobility, and artificial intelligence. (ipsnews.net)
  • With the unprecedented ageing of populations worldwide, countries are struggling with the critical questions of who should be responsible for caring for the old and what should be the extent of care provided to women and men in old age. (ipsnews.net)
  • Populations around the world are rapidly ageing. (who.int)
  • Consultations for both the report and the zero draft of the strategy were also able to draw on the mechanisms that have been established across WHO to ensure a "whole-of-organization" response to population ageing. (who.int)
  • The country is already considered an "ageing" society, meaning 10% of the population is aged 60 and over, and has been since 2005. (bangkokpost.com)
  • One of the biggest social transformations is population ageing. (who.int)
  • Just check out the quality of life in rapidly ageing Japan. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • Singapore's population is ageing rapidly. (who.int)
  • Recognising that ageing cuts across several domains such as health, social and employment, and required a whole-of-government response, a Ministerial Committee on Ageing (MCA) was formed to coordinate government policies and programmes relating to population ageing. (who.int)
  • Since then, Singapore has built up its community-based infrastructure to support its ageing population through a nationwide system of proactive outreach by volunteers. (who.int)
  • Organisations in Europe are grappling with the consequences of a rapidly ageing workforce. (deloitte.com)
  • Most of the population increase will take place in the world's poorer countries. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Moreover, some countries seem to be rapidly losing their viable tiger populations. (mongabay.com)
  • Declining birth rates following the baby boomer generation (1946-64) means countries now face shrinking populations. (deloitte.com)
  • exposure due to rapid elimination from the general population is not permitted the body. (cdc.gov)
  • Intraspecific trait variation within natural populations (i.e. intra-population trait variation, IPTV) is the basic source for selection and can have significant ecological consequences. (osti.gov)
  • While the population growth of cities in the industrialised world has somewhat stabilised, most of the increase occurs in the cities of the poor, less developed nations", the institute says. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Though population growth is positive, it is putting pressure on the local shire council. (abc.net.au)
  • Source: Regional Population Growth, Australia, 1998-99 (Cat no. 3218.0). (abs.gov.au)
  • As a result, while demand for food has shifted from West to East as a result of a different pace of population growth, advanced economies still account for the lion's share of exports. (imf.org)
  • More than 80% of patients with pauci-immune rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis were subsequently found to have circulating ANCAs, and, thus, this form of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis is now termed ANCA-associated vasculitis. (medscape.com)
  • But those figures did not include China's entire population, with full figures originally expected to come out in the census this month. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • The disease can strike rapidly and unexpectedly in healthy individuals. (aafp.org)
  • That's why your recommendation to get the measles vaccine is so critical to our population health. (aafp.org)
  • The pandemic has rapidly evolved from a health crisis to an all-encompassing economic quagmire. (brookings.edu)
  • ERPs for areas smaller than States and Territories are derived by the same procedures but they also take into account the change in some indicators (e.g. dwelling approvals), which have an impact on population change for the area. (abs.gov.au)
  • While many bacteria can double their population in 20-40 minutes, the fastest TB can do so is every 20 hours. (cdc.gov)
  • Thailand's trajectory sees it becoming a "super-aged" society in 2031, where those aged 60 and over make up 28% of the population. (bangkokpost.com)
  • This document is a blueprint for the many agencies and organizations that must work together to plan, develop, and implement effective strategies to eliminate TB in racial/ethnic minority population groups and high-risk geographic areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Just 1 month after the onset of the crisis in Ukraine, about one quarter of the population has been forcibly displaced, with almost 4 million Ukrainians having fled their country and another 6.5 million Ukrainians currently forcibly displaced within Ukraine. (medscape.com)
  • Persons 65 and over who now constitute about one-fifth of the population will constitute about two-fifths of the population by 2040. (repec.org)
  • Our digital footprints constitute a high-value commodity in a rapidly expanding market. (lu.se)
  • Base calling algorithms that can be run locally, without the need for an internet connection, are currently being developed, and by including a person dedicated to the bioinformatics work on future outbreak missions it should be possible to do this aspect of workflow rapidly on-site, with the same capacity than the laboratory work. (cdc.gov)
  • At present, 47% of the world's six billion population lives in cities and more will join them. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is a disease of the kidney characterized clinically by a rapid decrease in the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of at least 50% over a short period, from a few days to 3 months. (medscape.com)
  • Governments at the 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation also agreed to double tiger populations by 2022, which the experts say is totally unrealistic. (mongabay.com)
  • The western monarch's population has dropped by 99.9 percent since the 1980s. (kalw.org)
  • Since 1966, its populations have declined by 85 percent . (nature.org)
  • Currently, only around 56 percent of Africa's working-age population is aged between 15 and 64-more than 10 percentage points below the average in the rest of the world (Figure 3.1). (brookings.edu)
  • Soon afterward, the role of the anti-GBM antibody in rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis associated with Goodpasture disease was established. (medscape.com)
  • Major emerging-market nations have increased subsidies rapidly, even as rich nations cut theirs drastically. (imf.org)
  • To guide the debate on these issues, we analyze trends in the composition of world public debt and also calculate the burden of this debt-which we define as the ratio of debt to total and working-age populations. (brookings.edu)
  • Since 1977, the level of population replacement has not been obtained, Alfonso Fraga added. (babalublog.com)
  • It is expected that SARS-COV-2 will continually evolve and produce new variants if there is continued high level viral replication at the population level. (nature.com)
  • Microsimulation modelling of transmission systems at the population level is also rapidly developing. (nih.gov)
  • The aim of this study was to test the effects of rootstocks on B. tabaci populations in hydroponically grown tomato plants. (frontiersin.org)
  • While source sites have the potential to repopulate other sites, tiger populations are growing slowly at these sites, experts say. (mongabay.com)
  • In animal studies, pre-gestational, environment and is made in the for the general population where gestational and lactational exposure laboratory. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1982, Davies et al first noted the presence of ANCAs in 8 patients with pauci-immune rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and systemic vasculitis. (medscape.com)