Population

• [New] The environmental pressure of the food system could increase by 50-90 per cent by 2050 as a result of population growth and the continued westernisation of diets.
• [New] Half of the global population lives in areas at risk of infection in more than 100 countries, in tropical and subtropical regions.
• [New] The future of aging in Mexico will resemble the pattern of aging in the United States and Canada.
• [New] Lagos is poised to become one of the biggest cities in the world, with a predicted population of 80 million by the end of the century.
• [New] Threats such as climate change and populations growing across the world indicate that sustainable and responsible investment approaches that seek to consider environmental good and financial return are in demand.
• [New] All schools in Canada's most populous province will be shut down and move to online learning because of a record number of coronavirus infections fueled by more-contagious virus variants.
• [New] Governments will continue to deceive populations and lie to people about infectious disease diagnosis, transmission and risk.
• [New] The accelerating pace of population decline could weigh on growth and affect [Japan's] finances and social safety net.
• [New] Karachi is poised to become the 4th largest city in the world by 2035, with a population of 23.1%.
• [New] At the current rate, it will take India 2.4 years to cover 75% of its population.
• [New] A mobile app-based certification system, by itself, is incomplete and will prove to be ineffective on a global scale as much of the world's population still does not own a smartphone.
• [New] A diverse profile of vaccination sites, drawing on the benefits of different distribution modes, will help maximise the daily vaccination rate and vaccinate the Australian population against COVID-19 as quickly as possible.
• [New] The world population in 2100 will be within a range between 15.8 billion people according to the highest estimates - high fertility variant - and 6.2 billion according to the lowest - low fertility variant -, a figure that stands below the current 7 billion.
• [New] The global population is still increasing and will eventually stabilize, as some critics doubt that food production, due to lower yields from global warming, can support the global population.
• [New] AstraZeneca makes up the vast majority of doses that African nations expect to receive through COVAX, which aims to deliver 600 million shots to some 40 African countries in 2021, enough to vaccinate 20% of their populations.
• [New] Changes will be made to allow Australians under 50 years of age in priority populations 1 A and 1 B to receive the Pfizer vaccines reflecting the new ATAGI advice.
• [New] In the short term, delays in vaccine uptake increase the vulnerability of the Australian population to outbreaks of COVID-19 and the attendant risk of death and serious morbidity, especially among older Australians.
• [New] As the U.S. and U.K. vaccinate their populations much faster than initially anticipated, two disparate concepts have been swirling online in English-language vaccine discourse: the moral need for global vaccine equity and the consumer-driven desire for vaccine passports.
• [New] The great graying of China's population will magnify the pressures from the coming hollowing of the family structure.
• [New] Firefly tourism is brightening the spirits of people around the world, but without proper protections for the insect species, firefly populations could be at risk.

Last updated: 15 April 2021