World population

The current population in Syria is 22 million people. Over the course of a few years, three million Syrians have become refugees abroad and six and a half million more have fled their homes for other locations within the country. Most of the Syrians have been going to Europe- places like Turkey and Lebanon. A few months ago, the UN reported that the Syrian war is responsible for the number of displaced people. Due to the war, roughly forty-three percent of Syria’s population has fled the country…

impending retirement and Medicare will have on society. The term ageism was coined by Robert Neil Butler (1969), it describes the stereotyping and discrimination against a single person or a group based solely on their age (seniors). While the immense population of baby boomers (those born approximately between 1946 and 1964) begin to contemplate retirement, it is on the verge of encountering ageism on a degree never observed before. As the baby boomers reach the “normal” retirement age of 65,…

DEMOGRAPHICS: Population: Angola’s actual population as per the census of 2014 is 24.3 million. It constitutes .28 percent of the world population and roughly means that one person out of 355 people on planet is from Angola. The population in 2016 is expected to rise by another 3.5 million and reach 27.8 million. Angola has fertility rate of 5.54 children born per woman which is one of the highest in the world. With this growth rate population of Angola is expected to triple in less than 50…

In most of the civilized world, we have become accustomed to the assumed right that we all possess; to have as many children as we please. But the effect of this happening generation after generation has put the world in a crisis. The question at hand is, how many people can the earth support? Some things to consider when looking at this question are quality of life of the people, economic conditions, and the effect of the earth as a whole. This paper will demonstrate the need for a complete…

Throughout the existence of planet Earth, the human population has reached approximately 7.5 billion. By the year 2050, experts predict the population will reach 9 billion humans. Unfortunately, the optimum world population level ranges from 1.5 billion to 2 billion humans (Vidal). Therefore, as a species, humans have tripled the number of people necessary to “guarantee the minimal physical ingredients of a decent life…[for] everyone .” (Vidal) Throughout “The Tragedy of the Commons”, by Garrett…

case, they need more service or care which can be provided by health work staff. Day to day, old patients is increasing instead of increasing health work staff, which affects the health workforce department. On the same way, another aspect of aging population is increasing old age workers who can work with limited hours, however, younger staff can work a long time. Graham and Duffield (2010) indicate that old age workers {55 to 64} are participating in the lower industry. Moreover, as a result…

even when the population continuously increases. This negatively impacts the industry because consumers then create an increased demand for this product, and the producers supply as much as possible. According to the “The Future of Food” article written by I. Y. R. Odegard and E. Van Der Voet it states, “Presently, a billion people are undernourished and the FAO estimates that food production needs to increase by 70% in 2050 to feed the global population” (51). The increase in population creates…

In Peru, the presence of indigenous people is much different than that of Chile. According to the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook, Peru’s indigenous people make up 45% of the nation’s population (The World Factbook: PERU). All together, they occupy over half of the country’s land, so obviously the places they do occupy are subject to different laws and regulations because of Peru’s geographic diversity. However, although they have much larger numbers in Peru, the nation’s indigenous…

The world population forecast is shows not only approximately over 10 billion people going to be on the Earth after the 2050 but also the most crowded places on Earth. In order that, it would be needed bigger amount of food, water, living space, non-renewable resources…

our mind when discussing the government intervention on population growth is always the controversial one-child policy of the People’s Republic of China, a policy imposed in the 1980s, aimed to stabilize the supply of food and water and improve individual prosperity (Moore, 2014). Nowadays, the focus of the world on population growth shifts from birth control to immigration control, as a surprising report showed that 80% of U.S. population growth comes from immigrants (Bedard, 2014), and how the…