Sublime

As of this writing, an estimated 6.45 billion people live on our planet.* Experts predict that in only thirty years that figure will be closer to 10 billion. When I was born in the 1970s, 4 billion people occupied the planet. In the mid-1700s, around the time of Casanova, there were only 750 million people; ten thousand years ago, only 30 million,

Parmi ses constats, le rapport met en avant : un vieillissement de la population déjà en cours mais qui va s’accentuer dans les années à venir : ainsi, en 2040, 14,6 % des Français auront 75 ans ou plus, soit une augmentation de 5,5 points en 25 ans.

Malthus made a provocative and important point, but fortunately for us, his conclusions were far too pessimistic. When living standards began to rise globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and as more people moved to cities, families chose to have fewer children and to invest more in the education, nutrition, and health care of each ch

Fifteen billion people were born in the 19th and 20th centuries. But try to imagine how different the global economy—and the whole world—would be today if just seven of them never existed:

Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Mao Zedong

Gavrilo Princip

Thomas Edison

Bill Gates

Martin Luther King

Another way to put this is that 0.00000000004% of people were responsib

“The average mathematics score for 17-year-olds was not significantly different from that in 1973.”