Sunday, March 08, 2015

 

Extraordinary Demographic Growth


Since the founding of the UN in 1945, the world's population has tripled, with 28 mega-cities (over 10 million). Urban populations in this time period went from 30% to 54% of global humanity. Refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons now top 50 million. It is expected the world's population will grow from 7 billion to 10 billion by the year 2100.
--UN at 70: Mega-Cities, Mortality and Migration

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