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SAP and the United Nations Population fund have put together a web-based interactive map to explore the milestone reached this month, with a world population that has reached 7 billion people. The site contains details on births, deaths and growth rate, as well as demographic details on youth, children and seniors. The site is part [...]
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The Los Angeles Times has an op-ed columm today that highlights the global to urban shift that is the largest population shift in urban history. “Never in human history have so many people changed their locations and lifestyles so quickly. Each month, there are 5 million new city dwellers created through migration or birth in [...]
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Reports from the recently concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have centered on themes of climate change, population growth, and limited resources. POPULATION: The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, “with almost all of the [...]
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CISCO sees the network as the answer to creating a sustainable world. With everything connected in the Internet of Things, there’s a great opportunity and a new challenge to enable new services and new levels of productivity, which will be necessary due to an aging population and a shrinking world. Wim Elfrink, CISCO’s chief globalization [...]
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The U.S. Census Bureau has just released a report on Coastline Population Trends in the United States: 1960 to 2008, [PDF] that examines population trends along the country’s coast. The report comes on the eve of the hurricane season, and at a time when the oil spill is impacting this coastline. The findings show that [...]
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There’s an interesting story in the Times of India today about the work of a census enumerator in that country’s last census in 2001. There are some interesting parallels to the issues that enumerators for the U.S. Census face, such as tirades against the government and the difficulty in finding people at home. The bottom-line [...]
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The U.S. Census Bureau is hard at work on the 2010 Census, fighting technological hurdles and an apparent malaise about being counted. In order to highlight the tradition of the these population counts that occur ever 10 years, the agency has put together some highlights for each of the 23 counts that have taken place [...]
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