It is the year 2200 and the world has 250 million people. What has happened? Was there a total nuclear war and followed by a famine? Was there a terrible super-pandemic? How can the world have fallen from over 8.1 billion people in 2023 to 250 million. How can there be only 3% of the …
Here is a global with national fertility rates. The fertility rate information is outdated as it shows China with 1.43 when it is actually 1.18. All of the national fertility rates have been falling and are about 20-40% lower than in this map. The current fertility rate for Africa in 2023 is 4.155 births per …
Earth4All, which claims to be a scientific group, has new global population projections. Their scenarios are there is global success in eliminating extreme poverty and global poverty. This would reduce family sizes in Africa and parts of Asia and result in the global population peaking around 2050 at about 8.5 billion people. Earth4All clearly has …
By 2100, there should be two cities, Lagos and Kinshasa, with over 80 million people. Lagos has an official government plan to support 40 million people by 2050. The largest African, South Asian and Indian cities will pass Tokyo’s population by 2050. China is integrating several multi-city regions into areas with over 100 million people. …
The UN has their latest world population projections. Overall Annual Global Deaths Will Double Over the Next 60 Years The overall level of absolute annual deaths will be increasing from 60 million per year to about 80 million by 2050 and 100 million by 2070. The annual global death rate will average an increase by …
Satellitemap.space has a real-time view of the Starlink low earth orbit satellite constellation. Each dot is a Starlink satellite. You can see how many are over any particular country or region. There are some string of dots. Those are recent launches that still have to move to their final positions. Starlink is currently serving mainly …
The Indian Delta Variant of COVID has over twice the transmission rate of the original COVID and is hitting parts of Asia and Africa that mostly avoided COVID in 2020. Brazil, India, Colombia and Argentina have the most COVID cases this week. Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan will have a lot more cases in the coming weeks. …
Only eight African countries record their dead which means there are no good tracking of COVID or any other cause of death. Only Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles and Mauritius functioning, compulsory and universal civil registration systems (CRVS systems) which record deaths. The other countries have paper-based systems …
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has proposed a constitutional change to allow land seizures without payments. This will trigger conflict between the government and commercial farmers and the opposition. During apartheid land was taken from millions among the black majority. When Nelson Mandela took power in South Africa in 1994, 87 percent of the …
World Health Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Level 3 Emergency
Today people see the economic success of China and Asia and see the terrible poverty but many do not know that Africa was ahead of Asia for over a century in terms of per person wealth. Asia was at its worst in the early half of the 20th century with many wars and communist leadership …