Moving In. After the hardships and deprivations of World War II, the 1950s promised prosperity and a better life for many Americans. More families earned more money, bought cars, and bought or rented their own homes. Middle- and working-class families rushed to buy or rent homes in the new developments.

The world population has already increased from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 7.3 billion in 2015. World population increase has peaked in the five-year period between 1985 and 1990, when 457 million were added to the world population. However, increases in world population have not declined much since then.

World population increased from 3 billion to 6 billion between 1960 and 1999, a doubling time of 39 years.

2.5 billion people

For this four-decade period, that is an increase of 28% at an average annual rate of 0.6%. In the six decades from 1950 to 2010, the U.S. population had increased from 157.8 million to 312.2 million, a total gain of 98% at an average annual rate of 1.1%.

Human population grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, not because the birth rate increased, but because the death rate began to fall. Since the 1950s, birth rates have continued their decline, while death rates declined into the 1960s but have been slowly increasing since.

If Australians want to continue living as we do without making any changes, and as a planet we want to meet our footprint, then the number of humans Earth can sustain long term is around 1.9 billion people, which was roughly the global population 100 years ago in 1919.

An estimate on the “total number of people who have ever lived” as of 1995 was calculated by Haub (1995) at “about 105 billion births since the dawn of the human race” with a cut-off date at 50,000 BC (beginning of the Upper Paleolithic), and inclusion of a high infant mortality rate throughout pre-modern history.

After World War II there was a rapid decline in mortality in much of the developing world. By 1960 many developing countries had rates of increase as high as 3 percent a year, exceeding by two- or threefold the highest rates ever experienced by European populations. …

A 2014 paper by demographers from several universities and the United Nations Population Division forecast that the world’s population would reach about 10.9 billion in 2100 and continue growing thereafter.

In 2020, Burundi reported the lowest per-capita GDP ever, closely-followed by South Sudan and Somalia. All three countries struggle economically, because of poorly developed infrastructure and a low standard of living.

• United Arab Emirates. #1 in Movers Rankings. No Change in Rank from 2020.
• India. #2 in Movers Rankings. No Change in Rank from 2020.
• Egypt. #3 in Movers Rankings.
• Singapore. #4 in Movers Rankings.
• China. #5 in Movers Rankings.
• Japan. #6 in Movers Rankings.
• Thailand. #7 in Movers Rankings.
• South Korea. #8 in Movers Rankings.

Canada is the No. 1 Country in the World, According to the 2021 Best Countries Report – News.

In 2050, the global economy will be led by China, with India in second place, followed by Indonesia in fourth place. The United States is projected to be the world’s third-largest economy in 2050, based on gross domestic product (GDP). The European Union’s share of world GDP could fall below 10% by 2050.

• South Korea. #1 in Forward Thinking Rankings.
• Singapore. #2 in Forward Thinking Rankings.
• United States. #3 in Forward Thinking Rankings.
• Japan. #4 in Forward Thinking Rankings.
• Germany. #5 in Forward Thinking Rankings.
• China. #6 in Forward Thinking Rankings.
• United Kingdom. #7 in Forward Thinking Rankings.
• Switzerland.

By the end of the century, the world will be multipolar, with India, Nigeria, China, and the US the dominant powers.” The report contradicts an earlier forecast by the United Nations Population Division of “continuing global growth”.

In a report about the prediction, news agency PTI said CEBR forecast that this growth trajectory will see India become the world’s third largest economy by 2030. It will overtake the UK in 2025, Germany in 2027 and Japan in 2030.

Iceland

According to the rankings (out of 100), the most free countries in the world are Finland (100), Norway (100), Sweden (100), the Netherlands (99), Luxembourg (98), Uruguay (98) and Canada (98). The least free are Syria (0), Turkmenistan (2), Eritrea (2), South Sudan (2) and North Korea (3).

Highest ranking in personal freedoms were Sweden (9.45) and the Netherlands (9.28). In 2019, United States has dropped to rank 15 according to The Human Freedom Index. Nevertheless, democracy strongly correlates with freedom (7.9), as measured by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index and the Freedom Index.

• Canada. #1 in Quality of Life Rankings.
• Denmark. #2 in Quality of Life Rankings.
• Sweden. #3 in Quality of Life Rankings.
• Norway. #4 in Quality of Life Rankings.
• Switzerland. #5 in Quality of Life Rankings.
• Australia. #6 in Quality of Life Rankings.
• Netherlands. #7 in Quality of Life Rankings.
• Finland. #8 in Quality of Life Rankings.

Netherlands

10 global hotspots for major human rights violations in 2017

• Yemen.
• Turkey.
• Syria.
• Russia.
• Saudi Arabia.
• Myanmar.
• EU, Australia.
• China.

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New Zealand is a parliamentary democracy with a long record of free and fair elections and of guaranteeing political rights and civil liberties. Concerns include discrimination against the Māori and other minority populations, as well as reports of foreign influence in politics and the education sector.