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People: ageing, growing, moving
Fewer babies, more centenarians and more people on the move: how the shape of humanity is changing.
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Humanity
The world has already passed peak child
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Humanity
Half of Niger is under 16; half of Japan over 50
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Humanity
South Korea now has a quarter of the babies it had in 1971
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Humanity
China is projected to have fewer than half its people by 2100
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Humanity
Japan now has over 100,000 centenarians, up from 153
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Cities
Japan has 9 million empty homes: one in seven
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Future
One in ten in Japan will be foreign by 2070
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Humanity
Japan's foreign residents have doubled since 2012, passing 4 million
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Cities
Jakarta, not Tokyo, is the world's largest city
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Humanity
Two in three newly licensed UK doctors qualified abroad
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Humanity
Iran dropped from top refugee host to fifth in 2025
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Humanity
More Christians now live in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else
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Humanity
Two in three people live where fertility is below replacement
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Humanity
Japan's births fell below half their 1899 level