When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Demography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography

    The Demography of the World Population from 1950 to 2100. Data source: United Nations — World Population Prospects 2017. Demography (from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, society' and -γραφία (-graphía) 'writing, drawing, description') [1] is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the ...

  3. The Way Things Work - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work

    The Way Things Work is a 1988 nonfiction book by David Macaulay with technical text by Neil Ardley. It is a whimsical introduction to everyday machines and the scientific principles behind their operation, describing machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions. Every page consists ...

  4. Demographic statistics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_statistics

    Demographic statistics are measures of the characteristics of, or changes to, a population. Records of births, deaths, marriages, immigration and emigration and a regular census of population provide information that is key to making sound decisions about national policy. [1] [2] A useful summary of such data is the population pyramid. It ...

  5. Population geography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_geography

    The way in which places in turn react to population phenomena, e.g. immigration; Research topics of other geographic sub-disciplines, such as settlement geography, also have a population geography dimension: The grouping of people within settlements; The way from the geographical of places, e.g. settlement patterns

  6. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_world

    Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with more than 2.8 billion in the countries of India and China combined. The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world population ...

  7. David Macaulay - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Macaulay

    Macaulay authored a children's book, The Way Things Work (1988, text by Neil Ardley). This was expanded and re-released as The New Way Things Work (1998) and The Way Things Work Now (2016). [1] The Way Things Work is his most commercially successful series and served as the basis for a short-lived educational television program.

  8. Infographic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographic

    And finally, "retention" means that the viewer should remember the data presented by the infographic. The order of importance of these provisions depends on the purpose of the infographic. If the infographic is meant to convey information in an unbiased way, such as in the domains of academia or science, comprehension should be considered first ...

  9. Census - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census

    A census taker visits a family of Indigenous Dutch Travellers living in a caravan in the Netherlands in 1925.. A census (from Latin censere, 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given population, usually displayed in the form of statistics.