Total energy use is soaring, reflecting the combined effect of rising per capita incomes and thus rising per capita energy use and population growth.

It's always population growth.

For the world as a whole, population is expected to continue to grow by another 2.5 billion people from 2005 to 2050.

Enlarging the Council could make maters worse.

Population growth has given rise to serious social problems.

They believe that boosting allied forces will only increase the sense of occupation and give the Taliban more targets.

the level of participation in the labor force

Population growth may not slow down as rapidly as expected.

There are at least two possible interpretations.

And when it burst, the size of its country bubble is the size of the population.

First, let's consider Japan's population decline.

Hanoi ( or ) is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city.

The census bureau's announcement this month of a net decline in Japan's population, then, has been foreseen for quite a while.

Religion Pakistan is the second most populous Muslim majority country and has the second largest Shia population in the world after Iran.

Employment of women on an equal basis with men provides companies with a larger talent pool, potentially increasing creativity, innovation, and productivity. And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.

And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.

According to the 2002 census, 57.8 of the population is Catholic.

The population of the Kemerovo Oblast was 42 of the total population of the Novosibirsk Oblast.

Conception is home to 11.61 of the total population of the region.

Rapid population growth means a bulging youth population.

By 2050, almost 40 percent will be older than 65.

As a result, despite a tripling of the global population, we have so far evaded Malthus 1798 prediction that human population growth would inevitably outstrip our ability to produce food.

Allowing for changes in the number of people and their wealth, flood losses have actually decreased slightly.

We are experiencing a step change in the growth rate of energy demand due to rising population and economic development.

After the United States, it is also the second most popular migration destination in the world.

In the 17th century there was slow progress in trade and population growth.

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

The country has visibly prospered, and, despite population growth, per capita income has grown faster than ever before.

Kondisi seperti ini tentu memiliki dampak jangka panjang seiring dengan berkurang jumlah penduduk usia kerja dan melonjaknya jumlah penduduk lanjut usia.

But these innovations served only to increase the human population, not raise median standards of living.

This is a tall order at a time of rapid population growth and rapid aging.

Ethnic Egyptians are by far the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting 91 of the total population.

It is also home to about 66 million children, who constitute around 45 per cent of the country's total population.

Shanghai () is the largest Chinese city by population and the largest city proper by population in the world.

Increasing the labor force participation rate, especially among women and the elderly, might ease tight labor markets, but this alone would be insufficient to counter the decline in working age populations.

One side argues that rising human populations threaten our environment and prosperity.

The belief that the surge was successful is especially dangerous because the Afghanistan war is going so poorly.

Humans rapid expansion in terms of population and per capita use of Earth s resources has continued apace. During the past three centuries, the human population has increased ten fold, to more than six billion, and is expected to reach 10 billion in this century.

Humans rapid expansion in terms of population and per capita use of Earth s resources has continued apace.

The expanding hunger crisis reflects a lethal combination of growing rural populations and inadequate food yields.

American relations with Japan and China remain strong, and he has greatly enhanced the United States ties with India, the world s second most populous country.

So, lower participation in the labor force explains half of the difference, and longer vacations for those who do work accounts for the other half.

Both Barack Obama and John McCain advocate increasing troop levels in Afghanistan above the levels that the Bush administration has already pledged.

Ironically, there may once have been a point at which a large increase in troops might have made a difference.

Meanwhile, an EU immigration policy aimed at dramatically increasing immigration to cope with the population decline has created resentment among the local population.