Steering more than a billion people away from absolute poverty is not straightforward
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Nigeria’s population is expected to surpass that of the United States by 2050, according to new United Nations projections.
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/ 1 December 2011
A "green revolution" leading to much higher crop yields is needed to support the rapidly growing populations of African countries, a think-tank warns.
SA’s population hit 50-million this year, but the country’s population growth is considerably slower than that of Africa’s 39 high-fertility countries
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/ 30 October 2011
Nigeria is the continent’s most populist country with around 160-million people, and the UN estimates it could grow to around 400-million by 2050.
South Africa’s population has passed 50 million, according to mid-year population estimates released by Stats SA on Wednesday.
While Japan, Canada and Australia hand out "baby bonuses" to encourage people to have children, couples in a part of India are getting cash to not.
Stagnating population growth and dwindling deposits of gold and other minerals are likely to crimp South Africa’s growth.
Millions of people have escaped slum conditions in the last decade, but the number of slum dwellers is rising due to urbanisation and population.
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/ 16 September 2008
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