"For the first time, our study provides evidence that a significant proportion of the rural population may ... current estimates suggest over 40 per cent of the world's 8.2 billion people live ...

Nigeria is projected to become the world’s second-most populous country after India, with a population that will more than triple to over 700 million. Pakistan’s population is expected to ...

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Most of the world has dirty air ... Breathing in polluted air over a long period of time can cause respiratory illness, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, said Fatimah ...

At that time, he also noted that immigration alone is not enough to make up for the population declines happening around the world ... percent population decline over the course of three ...

for instance providing a distorted picture of movement over time from the countryside to urban areas." Population censuses, the key input for the population datasets in use, are considered to be ...

Most of the world’s population is breathing polluted air ... because oftentimes these are the only sources of publicly available real-time air quality monitoring data,” said Christi Chester ...

If trends continue, global rates of overweight and obese adults would rise to about 57.4% for men and 60.3% for women by 2050. In terms of raw numbers, China (627 million), India (450 million) and the ...

As per the UN estimates, the current world population is around ... 53 per cent to 84 per cent over the study period between 1975 and 2010. "For the first time, our study provides evidence that ...

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