Questions tagged [population]
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Has the Gaza population increased in 2024, and if so, by how much?
An X account of visegrad24 made a post citing The World Factbook claiming that
Gaza population increased by 2.02% or 43,000 people since October 7th 2023.
(an archived version if the site doesn't ...
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Are all citizens of Saudi Arabia "considered Muslims by the state"?
According to a May 5, 2024 article in Zawia3, a somewhat polemic Egyptian political news source, 2024 source:
accurately determining the religious population composition in Saudi Arabia is ...
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Were there 20,000 Jewish people in Lebanon in 1948?
An article by the Jewish Virtual Library on Lebanon puts the numbers of Jewish people as 20,000 in 1948 citing "Maariv, (June 21, 1991); Jewish Telegraphic Agency, (July 22, 1993); Jewish ...
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Could 7 billion people fill Los Angeles if they stood shoulder to shoulder?
A 2010 National Geographic video talks about 7 billion people (the Earth's population at the time). At timestamp 1:57, the video claims that
standing shoulder to shoulder all 7 billion of us would ...
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Did a Planned Parenthood vice president write a memo discussing fertility reduction?
According to Wikipedia, Frederick Jaffe, former vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and founder of what is now the Guttmacher Institute, wrote a memorandum discussing fertility ...
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Do 50% of Canadians live south of the 45°42′N latitude?
Brilliant Maps claim that:
While the 49th parallel is often thought of as the border between the US and Canada, the vast majority of Canadians (roughly 72%) live below it, with 50% of Canadians ...
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Will the human population reach 8-9 billion around 2050 and then decline?
In a January 2019 Guardian article, What goes up: are predictions of a population crisis wrong?, Darrel Bricker and John Ibbitson claim:
the human population will top out at somewhere between 8 and ...
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Were there 2.48 million Syrians living in Saudi Arabia in 2018?
GMI claims
As per the data from 2017-2018, more than 30% of the Saudi population are expats. The total number of non-Saudis in the country is estimated to be 10,736,293. Nearly a quarter of this are ...
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Are millions of chinese men without wives because of population gender imbalance? [closed]
I keep finding articles stating that because of the One Child Policy, there is a big gender imbalance in China. They say it's bad enough that millions of men won't be able to find a wife.
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Is there more than one registered motor vehicle for every adult in the US?
According to the US Census Bureau's table of estimated population as of July 1 each year, there were 268.3M people 14 years of age or older, including 260.1M people 16 years of age or older, including ...
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What is the impact on climate change of having a child?
I found one study from 2017 that says (emphasis mine):
We recommend four widely applicable high-impact (i.e. low emissions) actions with the potential to contribute to systemic change and ...
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Is this forecast predicting massive global depopulation until 2025 legit?
I recently stumbled upon this article about a forecast/list of predicted population development until 2025: Deagel, a real intelligence organization for the U.S. government, predicts massive global ...
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Did the world Jewish population increase between 1933 and 1948?
A common claim among holocaust denial is that if Jews were killed, the 6 million figure is grossly exaggerated. A specific claim is that
according to the World Almanac the world population of Jews ...
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Are 'white women' only 4% of the world population?
I come across the image below, according to which 'white women' would be only 4% of the world population.
Since among 'white women' there are thousands of millions of women living, for example, in ...
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Is the number of Muslims correlated with terrorist attacks?
As reported in The Guardian, the Australian TV host Sonia Kruger has recently kicked up a storm by claiming that
There is a correlation between the number of people in a country who are Muslim and ...
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