Amid mortality and demographic crisis, Ukraine’s population on Kiev-controlled territory may be just 22–25 million, says minister Denis Ulyutin, head of Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity.
He noted that in 1991, Ukraine’s population was about 48 million. By the beginning of 2022, that figure had already fallen to around 41 million.
While global population growth is projected to slow over the rest of the century, Africa stands out for its relatively young and growing population.
Here are five facts about the changing population in Africa, based on a Pew Research Center analysis of the United Nations’ World Population Prospects. The latest data is from 2023, so figures for 2024 and beyond are UN projections.
Africa’s population has grown more than sixfold since 1950.
Today, 28% of all people under 25 live in Africa, as does 19% of the overall population.
By 2100, Africa is expected to have 12 of the world’s 25 most populous countries.
Africa is the only world region where fertility remains above the replacement level.
The median age in Africa is projected to rise from about 19 years today to 35 in 2100.
The only thing growing faster than the artificial-intelligence industry may be Americans’ negative feelings about it, as former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt saw on Friday.
Delivering a commencement address at the University of Arizona, Schmidt told students the “technological transformation” wrought by artificial intelligence will be “larger, faster, and more consequential than what came before.” Like some other graduation speakers mentioning AI, Schmidt was met with a chorus of boos.
This chart shows population - weighted total fertility rates (TFR) across major world regions, based on data from the UN World Population Prospects 2024 Revision, and how they compare to the 2.1 replacement level.
- Africa stands apart with a fertility rate of 4.0 children per woman, far above the 2.1 replacement level.
- Most of the world including Asia, Europe, and the Americas is now below replacement, pointing to slower population growth ahead.
A widening gap is emerging in global birth rates.
Source:
https://www.voronoiapp.com/demographics/Charted-The-Global-Fertility-Divide-8234
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Across the country, parents are voicing concerns about excessive screen time in schools and lobbying educators to go back to pencil and paper. In places like Lower Merion Township, where Aliyah goes to high school, some are taking it even further. Over 600 people in the affluent Philadelphia suburb have signed a petition asking to preserve parents’ ability to opt their children out of using digital devices during the school day. The public school district has pushed back, saying it’s not feasible to let hundreds of students opt out of technology that is essential to the curriculum.
Japan’s estimated population of children (defined as those aged 0 to 14 years) was 13.3 million as of April 1, 2026, according to annual data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, released on the May 5 Children’s Day holiday. There were 6.8 million boys and 6.5 million girls. This total was 360,000 fewer than the previous year, and marked the forty-fifth straight year since 1982 that the number has fallen. It is also the lowest on record since comparable statistics were first compiled in 1950.
To put this in perspective: China alone installed 415 GW of solar in 2025. That single country's solar installations in one year exceeded the entire cumulative capacity of every operational nuclear reactor on Earth combined (~376 GW).
A massive new global study completely demolishes fossil fuels and nuclear power. The economics just flipped: a brand-new report from IRENA proves that building firm, round-the-clock solar-plus-storage from scratch is now actively cheaper than just buying the fuel to keep an existing, fully paid-off gas or coal plant running. Since 2010, battery costs have crashed by 93% and solar by 87%, bringing the price of 24/7 hybrid power down to $54–$82/MWh—decisively undercutting fossil fuels. This completely changes the game. Historically, old fossil plants were a cheap, stubborn baseline because their capital costs were already paid off. Now that zero-marginal-cost solar backed by cheap batteries is undercutting their literal fuel floors, sticking with gas isn't saving anyone money—it's what's actually going to inflate consumers' bills. This isn't a luxury tax for the environment; it's basic economics eating fossil fuels for dinner.
IRENA Report Says 24/7 Solar And Wind Power Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels - SolarQuarter https://solarquarter.com/2026/05/07/irena-report-says-24-7-solar-and-wind-power-now-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels/#:%7E:text=Since%202010%2C%20the%20installation%20cost,93%25%20during%20the%20same%20period
In just 10 years Argentina's fertility rate went from being above replacement level fertility (2.1) to extremely below replacement level fertility. Births fell from 777k in 2014 to 413k in 2024.
It wasn't a Greek Kingdom but an Indo-Greek Kingdom. The official court language was Gandhari Prakri. The main religions practiced by the rulers were Hinduism and Buddhism were . It wasn't a Greek colony, nor was it like Alexander's successor States like Ptolemaic Egypt or Selucid Persia. The Indo-Greeks were highly Indianised and much more integrated into Indian Civilization.
The world’s first fossil fuel phaseout conference has begun in Santa Marta, Colombia, with 57 countries representing more than half of global GDP, 30% of the world’s population and 20% of global fossil fuel production. Fossil fuel phaseout has moved from climate advocacy to the center of the global economy, where it can no longer be ignored.
For years, fossil fuel phaseout has been treated as politically impossible unless every major producer agreed at once. Santa Marta is testing a different theory: that a critical mass of countries can start building the rules, roadmaps, finance mechanisms and scientific capacity needed to manage the decline of coal, oil and gas. Before the next crisis forces the world to do it chaotically.
The conference is co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands and is designed as a space for countries, subnational governments and other stakeholders that recognize the need to implement a transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner, in line with climate goals and the best available science.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has announced financial incentives of Rs 30,000 for the birth of a third child and Rs 40,000 for a fourth in a family, as part of efforts to reverse the state’s declining population trend.
Naidu said changing social and economic trends are influencing family size, with some couples opting for a single child as incomes rise, while others choose a second child only if their firstborn is not a boy. He said this was contributing to a decline in population growth and stressed the need to maintain the replacement-level Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 2.1
The aircraft was leased from Pakistan International Airlines shortly after Emirates' founding in 1985 and flew mostly to Mumbai during its short service, until they switched to their present-day wide bodies.
This picture was found on flight aware.
Aircraft type: Boeing 737-340
Registration: AP-BCD
Primary route: DXB -> BOM
China has the highest annual coal consumption, followed by India due to their high population size. However, per capita consumption remains highest in the United States, Europe, Canada, and a few developed Asian countries.
In absolute terms some nations like China do produce a lot (~20 times) more CO2 than Canada, for example. But then again they have far (~35 times) more people too. And they export a lot of manufactured goods, which requires local emissions to achieve. Canada produces oil exports to other nations, which also requires local CO2 emissions to achieve. So how do we sort it all out?
The most fair measure for international comparison is "Per capita consumption-based CO2 emissions", which takes into account the population plus CO2 exports and imports. So this includes CO2 emitted in one country for goods consumed in another such as oil, TVs, phones, whatever. We have this information. See source links below.
Canada is among the worst. Top 10 for sure, after the Middle East, Australia and the USA. Almost 2 times as bad as China, 7 times India. Again, including CO2 trade to be fair to everyone.
The US is 2.3 times China, and 9.2 times India.
Why is this? Because the largest overall correlation to CO2 emissions per capita is wealth. Broadly speaking: rich people typically spend/consume more of everything, both as a nation and individually. CO2 emissions as well.
In my opinion nobody should get a free pass, but we all need to at least recognize our fair share in the effort to get climate change under control. And that doesn't necessarily mean absolute parity. For example, living conditions may require more energy usage in some places compared to others for seasonal heating, air conditioning, etc. It is complicated.
But in the end, people who already have lower emissions simply can't reduce as much as people who have way higher emissions. We cannot reach the required targets if the top consumers don't reduce proportionally.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita