{"id":119,"date":"2005-09-15T17:57:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2014-11-16T20:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:30:54","slug":"world-population-still-a-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/world-population-still-a-concern-119","title":{"rendered":"World population - still a concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting stats pulled from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prb.org\/pdf05\/05WorldDataSheet_Eng.pdf\">World Data Sheet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Percentage of the world living below US$2 per day: <strong>53%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Projected world population in 2050: <strong>9.3 billion<\/strong>, an increase of 43% from 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Japan's population will drop <strong>21%<\/strong> from now to 2050, China's will increase <strong>10%<\/strong>, even though the one-child policy is still in place.<\/li>\n<li>Singapore's infant mortality rate <strong>1.9\/1000 live births<\/strong> (lowest in the world), Australia's: <strong>4.5<\/strong>, USA:  <strong>6.6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Singapore has one of the <strong>highest per-capita incomes<\/strong> and <strong>highest population densities<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Numbers that matter...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting stats pulled from World Data Sheet: Percentage of the world living below US$2 per day: 53% Projected world population in 2050: 9.3 billion, an increase of 43% from 2005. Japan's population will drop 21% from now to 2050, China's will increase 10%, even though the one-child policy is still in place. Singapore's infant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}