Demographic news from around the world. Researcher at US Census Bureau & geography instructor for George Washington Univ. Views my own. retweets≠endorsements.
Census shows America’s post-2020 population is driven by diversity especially among the young | Brookings https://t.co/r5XkKofzKM by #WilliamHFrey via @BrookingsInst
Fast Facts on Global Population from @VisualCap:
China accounts for 17.7% of world’s population, while India represents 17.8% share.
Africa is fastest growing region, with annual growth of ~2.4%.
Europe is only region that is shrinking, -0.17% annually. https://t.co/pp2vYqpkRv
The population of young children fell across most US cities since the start of the Covid pandemic, according to the US Census Bureau | Bloomberg CityLab +Economics https://t.co/eg3WTdWmTs via @citylab
Germany's population was 82.7 million in a census published on Tuesday, with 1.4 million fewer residents than previously assumed.
The foreign population is about a million fewer than previously reported. https://t.co/y2XVvDRh05 via @dwnews
US Allies Japan & South Korea Have a Serious Population Problem, continue to pour funding into programs they hope will stabilize their falling fertility rates, with one demographer telling @Newsweek he believes it's too late to avert a population crisis. https://t.co/CCT7FZltPn
‘Our people are thriving’: New Zealand Māori population hits million mark
Once regarded as ‘dying out’, Māori families celebrate population milestone and share their hopes for the future in a changing New Zealand | The Guardian https://t.co/mVoElPXEui via @guardian
The LGBTQ+ community is growing, with an increasing number of people openly identifying as something other than heterosexual or cisgender, according to data reviewed by ABC News. Official data on demographics under the LGBTQ+ umbrella is lacking. https://t.co/1mU3IBVLiv via @ABC
Census shows big city population improvements, countering predictions of the ‘urban doom loop’ | Brookings https://t.co/4UCa0qAvty by #WilliamHFrey via @Brookings
Japan's birth rate fell for the eighth year in 2023. Only 727,277 children were born in Japan last year, a drop of 43,482 since 2022 and the lowest figure since Japan started recording statistics in 1899, according to NHK. | Newsweek https://t.co/RTtGf9jqph via @Newsweek
Germany’s aging population is dragging on its economy—all of Europe will soon be affected, and it’s only going to get worse | Fortune https://t.co/Xtlvh4ba2x via @FortuneMagazine