🇧🇷 Brazil
Brazil’s population will remain stable, around 217 million.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
Bangladesh will continue to grow, reaching about 215 million by 2050.
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Indonesia will grow moderately, reaching around 320 million by 2050.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s population will nearly double to 225 million in 2050.
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
English: DRC will expand rapidly, reaching over 218 million by 2050.
🇸🇪 Sweden
Selma Lagerlöf – Nobel Prize in Literature (1909), first woman to win in literature.
Tomas Lindahl – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015), for DNA repair research.
Svante Pääbo – Nobel Prize in Medicine (2022), for work on ancient DNA.
🇫🇷 France
Marie Curie – Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911), for pioneering research on radioactivity.
Jean-Paul Sartre – Nobel Prize in Literature (1964), declined the award.
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi – Nobel Prize in Medicine (2008), for discovering HIV.
����🇩 2004 – Indian Ocean (Indonesia epicenter)
9.2 magnitude quake and tsunami, killing 227,898 people in 14 countries.
🇨🇳 2008 – Sichuan, China
7.9 magnitude quake, 90,000 deaths and millions left homeless.