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  2. Population growth - Wikipedia

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    The CIA World Factbook gives the world annual birthrate, mortality rate, and growth rate as 1.86%, 0.78%, and 1.08% respectively. [31] The last 100 years have seen a massive fourfold increase in the population, due to medical advances , lower mortality rates, and an increase in agricultural productivity made possible by the Green Revolution .

  3. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    The CIA World Factbook gives the world annual birthrate, mortality rate, and growth rate as 1.915%, 0.812%, and 1.092% respectively [84] The last one hundred years have seen a rapid increase in population due to medical advances and massive increase in agricultural productivity [85] made possible by the Green Revolution. [86] [87] [88]

  4. Demographics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend, resulting in a historically slow population increase in 2021. The growth rate is 0.1% as estimated for 2021. [81] The birth rate is 11.0 births/1,000 population, as of 2020. [42] This was the lowest birth rate since records began.

  5. Population dynamics - Wikipedia

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    The algebraic symbols b, d and r stand for the rates of birth, death, and the rate of change per individual in the general population, the intrinsic rate of increase. This formula can be read as the rate of change in the population (dN/dt) is equal to births minus deaths (B − D). [2] [13] [17]

  6. World population - Wikipedia

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    Birth rate and mortality rates can change rapidly due to disease epidemics, wars and other mass catastrophes, or advances in medicine and public health. The UN's first report in 1951 showed that during the period 1950–55 the crude birth rate was 36.9/1,000 population and the crude death rate was 19.1/1,000. By the period 2015–20 both ...

  7. Demographics of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the nation has an ageing population, with the median age of the country being 40.3 years. [15] In 2009, Russia recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years; during the mid-2010s, Russia had seen increased population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates and increased immigration. [16]

  8. Demographics of China - Wikipedia

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    Death rate. 7.87 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.) Country comparison to the world: 77th; Net migration rate-0.43 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 122nd; Population growth rate. Population growth rate: −0.15% (2023) Sex distribution. Sex distribution: 1.06 males/females (2020) Sex ratio

  9. Projections of population growth - Wikipedia

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    Projections of population growth. 1. World population growth 1700–2100, 2022 projection. Population projections are attempts to show how the human population statistics might change in the future. [1] These projections are an important input to forecasts of the population's impact on this planet and humanity's future well-being. [2]