Population

On World Population Day, Nine Strategies to Stop Short of 9 Billion

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Robert Engelman
On World Population Day, Nine Strategies to Stop Short of 9 Billion
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Although most analysts assume that the world’s population will rise from today’s 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, it is quite possible that humanity will never reach this population size.

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http://www.worldwatch.org/world-population-day-nine-strategies-stop-short-9-billion-0

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Global Education Levels

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UNESCO Institute of Statistics

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Global Education Levels

This combined image shows the number of years children and young adults attend school. Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, and North Africa are the three most education-deficient regions as shown on the map. The bottom graph depicts the distribution of years spent in school, showing the number of years spent in pre-school, grammar/secondary school, and post-secondary school by region. 

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Maping maritime transporte

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www.sipri.org/research/security/transport/maritime

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Maping maritime transporte

Maritime transport accounts for at least 80% of global trade and includes significant quantities of potentially destabilizing commodities such as weapons, narcotics ammunition and other hazardous materials.

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