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Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Californians for Population Stabilization; Center for Biological Diversity; Earth Policy Institute; National Commission for the Observance of World Population Year 1974; Negative Population Growth; NumbersUSA; Population Action International; Population Balance; Population Connection (called Zero Population Growth until 2002) Population Council
World population has been rising continuously since the end of the Black Death, around the year 1350. [72] The fastest doubling of the world population happened between 1950 and 1986: a doubling from 2.5 to 5 billion people in 37 years, [73] mainly due to medical advancements and increases in agricultural productivity.
Population ethics is the philosophical study of the ethical problems arising when our actions affect who is born and how many people are born in the future. An important area within population ethics is population axiology, which is "the study of the conditions under which one state of affairs is better than another, when the states of affairs in question may differ over the numbers and the ...
Australia has the world's eighth-largest immigrant population, with immigrants accounting for 30% of the population, a higher proportion than in any other nation with a population of over 10 million. [ 80 ] [ 82 ] Most immigrants are skilled, [ 83 ] but the immigration quota includes categories for family members and refugees .
The world’s population will reach 8 billion in the middle of November. But as our human family grows larger, it is also growing more divided.
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
How Ethical is Australia? An Examination of Australia's Record as a Global Citizen is a 2004 book by Peter Singer and Tom Gregg, in which the authors apply moral philosophy to examine Australia's domestic, environmental and foreign policies.