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  Richard Allaway

  

  How Europe’s population is changing and what the EU is doing about it

  thelocal.ch - Claudia Delpero, Europe Street

  After decades of growth, the population of the European Union decreased over the past two years mostly due to the hundreds of thousands of deaths …

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  Richard Allaway

  

  There are more people in England and Wales than ever – but that’s no bad thing

  The Guardian - Rob McNeil

  England and Wales have the “largest population ever recorded”, the Office for National Statistics trumpets in its first 2021 census bulletin, released today. You might get the impression from its placement at the top of the bulletin that this new record is interesting or surprising, or that it has …

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  Richard Allaway

  

  England and Wales population hits record as over-65s overtake under-15s

  The Guardian - Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent, Ashley Kirk, Caelainn Barr and Pamela Duncan

  The population of England and Wales aged 65 and over has finally surpassed the number of children aged under 15, according to the first results of the 2021 census, which provided a snapshot of an increasingly crowded island nation. As a 20% surge in the number of people aged 65 and over in the past …

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  Richard Allaway

  

  Could China’s population start falling?

  BBC Future - Xiujian Peng

  The world's biggest nation is about to shrink. China accounts for more than one-sixth of the world's population, yet after four extraordinary decades in which the country’s population has swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time …

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  Richard Allaway

  

  The Black Sea blockade: mapping the impact of war in Ukraine on the world’s food supply – interactive

  The Guardian - Kaamil Ahmed, Garry Blight, Liz Ford and Lydia McMullan

  From vast grain stores stuck in Odesa to famine risk in Yemen, a visual guide to the far-reaching effects of Russia’s block on exports Wheat is on the verge of rotting in Ukraine’s warehouses. Piles of it have been stuck in storage since Russia invaded in February and imposed a blockade on Ukrainian …

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  Richard Allaway

  

  Mapped: The World’s Population Density by Latitude

  visualcapitalist.com - Alasdair Rae

  A Decade of Population Growth and Decline in U.S. Counties There are a number of factors that determine how much a region’s population changes. If an …