Population
World
Population by age and sex 1995 and 2025
In 1999, the world population will reach 6 billion !
Source: WHO
World
Population Growth Actual and Projected, 1950-2050
The rate and acceleration of population growth worldwide.
Source: UNFPA
Urban
and rural population, world, 1955-2015
Source: WHO
Age
and Sex structure of the population 1950-2050: Least
Developed Countries
This is an animated graph! This graph, from the UN
Population Fund, demonstrates how the population will grow
and how it will age over the decades.
Source: UNFPA
Capital
cities and cities over 100,000 inhabitants
Global or regional maps
Source: UN Statistics Division
World's
15 Largest Cities, 1994 AND 2015 (projected)
This document from 1996 is in Adobe Acrobat format. It
will load automatically when thie link is clicked.
Source: UNFPA
Percentage
of population living in urban areas 1950-2025
In most countries, the urban population is growing faster
than the total population.
This is an Adobe Acrobat file.
Source: UNFPA
Natural
increase as a percentage of urban growth
This Acrobat file can be found by scrolling down the page
to the section entitled "Charts and Graphs."
Source: UNFPA
Urban
Growth In Western Africa
The rate of urban growth is highest in Africa, where the
proportion of people living in urban centers is expected
to increase from less than one in four in 1970 to more
than half by the year 2025.
Source: OCDE/FAO
World
Population aged 65 and above, 1997
Source: WHO
World
Polulation aged 65 and above, 2025
Source: WHO
Health
Causes
of death 1985, 1990, 1997
Distribution of deaths by main causes by level of
development
Source: WHO
Age
structure of deaths, 1955-2025
World, Least Developed Countries and Developed Market
Economies
Source: WHO
Estimated
number of adults and children living with HIV/AIDS end of
1997
Source: UNAIDS
Estimated
number of adults and children newly infected with HIV
during 1997
Source: UNAIDS
Estimated
number of children who are orphans because of AIDS, since
the beginning of the epidemic
Source: UNAIDS
New
infectious diseases in humans and animals since 1976
Countries where cases first appeared or were first
identified
Source: WHO World Health Report 1997
(click on "press kit"; Acrobat file, page 9)
Selected
emerging and re-emerging disease outbreaks in 1995
At least 30 new diseases have been scientifically
recognized around the world in the last 20 years.
Source: WHO World Health Report 1997
(click on "press kit"; Acrobat file, page 9)
Deaths
due to selected infectious diseases, 1995 estimates
About 6.6 people died from all types of cancer in 1995.
Three main cancers are linked to infections.
Source: WHO World Health Report 1997
(click on "press kit"; Acrobat file, page 12)
The
10 biggest killers
About 52 million people died from all causes in 1995. Of
these, more than 17 million were killed by infectious
diseases.
Source: WHO World Health Report 1997
(click on Press kit; Acrobat file,
page 12)
Major
cancers in men and women, 1996
Source: WHO World Health Report 1997
Reported
incidence of polio 1987
Source: WHO
Reported
incidence of polio 1997
Source: WHO
Percentage
of population with access to safe water 1990-1994
Source: UNDP
Percent
of household with access to a hygenic means of excreta
disposal
(choose "Data coloured world maps" and
"sanitation")
Source: UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO) and
Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).
Nutrition
Number of persons chronically undernourished in developing
countries.
Source: FAO
Regional
distribution of children suffering from insufficient
growth, 1990
Undernutrition and malnutrition in children affect not
only physical but also mental dvelopment.
Source: FAO
Mapping
Undernutrition
Percentage of population undernourished: 1969- 71 and
1990-92
Source: FAO
Progress
in achieving global targets for health for all by the year
2000
Life expectancy at birth -target: over 60 years; Under-5
mortality rate -target: 70 per 1000 live births and Infant
mortality rate -target: below 50 per 1000 live births.
Source: WHO
Social Indicators
Drugs
Main
traffic and production of illegal drugs
Source: UNESCO/PEDRO
Refugees
Major
refugee Areas Worldwide
Source: UNHCR
Major
situations of displacement worldwide
Source: UNHCR
Major
returnee population worldwide
Source: UNHCR
Somali
refugees in the Horn of Africa
Source: UNHCR
Central
Asia,South Asia and Middle East Areas of return
Source: UNHCR
Kosovo,
Situation map
Source: UNHCR
Refugees
and returnees in South-East Asia
Source: UNHCR
Education
Adult
illiteracy rate 1995
(internal link: can click on regions to view data)
Source: POPIN
Gross
enrolment ratios (%)
Primary Secondary Higher education in Asia and Oceania.
The total enrolment at primary and second levels,
regardless of age, divided by the population of the total
age group defined in each country for the first and second
levels of education.
(Acrobat File: Unesco Sources, May 1998, Page 21)
Source: World Education Report (Infography: A. Darmon).
World
Education Indicators
(internal link) Consult these topics:
Access to schooling
Participation in education
Internal efficiency
Pupil-teacher ratio
Public expenditure on education
Illiteracy
Source: UNESCO |
Food
Some
effects of global warming on agriculture
Long-term fluctuations in weather patterns could have
extreme impacts on agricultural production, slashing crop
yields and forcing farmers to adopt new agricultural
practices in response to altered conditions.
Source: FAO
Global
Hunger: widespread, persistent, unacceptable
Number of persons chronically undernourished in developing
countries.
Source: FAO
Increase
In Numbers Of Fishers Around The World Since 1970
The number of men and women deriving an income from
fishing has more than doubled since 1970.
Source: FAO
Women
Women's
activity rates for the age group 20-54 years in 1950,
1970, 1990 and 2010
Indicated by: world, more developed and less developed
regions. Global women's economic activity rates have
climbed from 54 per cent in 1950 to 67per cent in 1996 and
are expected to reach almost 70 per cent in 2010.
Source: ILO (International Labour Organization)
Maternal
Mortality Ratios, 1990
Number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, by
region/subregion
Source: WHO
Causes
of Maternal death, 1990
Causes of death to women during pregancy or giving birth
Source: WHO
Birth
to women under 20 and over 35, 1990-1995
Indicated per level of development and region.
Source: WHO
Deaths
from unsafe abortion
Source: WHO
Also see Women, under
Social Indicators
Children
Infant
Mortality
Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 live births (Data
coloured world maps, choose "infant mortality")
Source: United Nations Population Division, UNICEF, United
Nations Statistical Division, World Bank
and US Bureau of the Census.
Unimmunized
infants 1980-1996
Percentage of infants not given vaccinations.
Source: WHO
Child
malnutrition
Percent of under-fives moderately or severly underweight
(Data coloured world maps, choose "Child
malnutrition")
Source: Demographic and Health Surveys, Multiple Indicator
Cluster Surveys (MICS) and World Health
Organization (WHO).
The
world's children: How many ? How old ?
The world's children (0-18 years) number over 2 billion.
Nearly 9 out of 10 of them (87 per cent) live in
developing countries.
(choose: PDF Version, Acrobat File download part 1, page
25)
Source: UN Population Division, World Population Prospects
The
working child
1 out of every 4 children in the developing world work
(choose: PDF Version, Acrobat File download part 1, page
26, first graph)
Source: based on ILO surveys
Long
days, long weeks
Of the projected 190 million working children in the 10-14
age group in the developing world, three quarters of them
work six days a week or more and one half work nine hours
a day or more. (choose: PDF Version, Acrobat File download
part 1, page 26, secondgraph)
Source: based on ILO surveys
Child
Labour: At what age ?
Legal minimum ages for different types of work, in
selected countries. (choose: Fact Sheet, download Fact
Sheets, page3)
Source: Conditions of Work Digest, ILO, Geneva, 1995.
A
working day in the life of a 10-year-old girl in Nepal
In the peak season... In the slack season...She spends 12
out of 14 waking hours labouring at her chores.
(choose: Fact Sheet, download Fact Sheets, page5; put the
two graphs on one page!)
Source: Victoria Johnson, Joanna Hill and Edda Ivan-Smith,
Listening to smaller voices, ACTIONAID, London, 1995.
Climate and Environment
Some
effects of global warming on agriculture
Long-term fluctuations in weather patterns could have
extreme impacts on agricultural production, slashing crop
yields and forcing farmers to adopt new agricultural
practices in response to altered conditions.
Source: FAO
Contribution
of greenhouse gases to global warming, 1980-1990
Agricultural activities are responsible for large-scale
emissions of greenhouse gases.
Source: FAO
Projected
emissions of greenhouse gases, 1990-2100
Source: FAO
Desertification
of Africa
How spreading deserts threaten Africa. The main cause of
desertification is not drought, but mismanagement of the
land, including overgrazing and felling of trees and
brushwood for fuel.
Source: FAO
Main
cause of dryland soil degradation by region
Desertification does not refer to the moving forward of
exsisting deserts but to the formation, expansion or
intensification of degraded patches of soil and vegetation
cover.
Source: FAO
Climatic
impacts of warm El Niño events (October-March)
El Niño has different impacts in different parts of the
world and at different times of the year.
Source: FAO
Climatic
impacts of warm El Niño events (April-September)
El Niño has different impacts in different parts of the
world and at different times of the year.
Source: FAO
Where
have all the forests gone?
Main categories of forest cover change by geographic
regions, 1980–90 (changes as percentages of 1980
regional forest area; closed and open forest)
Source: FAO
Forest
areas by main regions in 1995
Source: FAO
Countries
with the largest percentage of the world's forests
(Choose: ‘State of the world Forest 1997', Acrobat file,
page 13)
Source: FAO
Comparison
of 1980 and 1995 forest areas
Change shown as percentage of 1980 forest areas by region,
except former USSR (Choose: ‘State of the world Forest
1997', Acrobat file, page 18) Source: FAO
Forest
areas by main regions in 1995
Source: FAO
Percentage
Forest Loss In Selected Developing Countries, 1980-1990
Source: FAO
Economic Development
Long
term pattern of economic growth and human development
progress
Source: United Nations Development Program, Human
Development Report 1996.
Employment
opportunities expand at different rates despite similar
economic growth
Source: United Nations Development Program, Human
Development Report 1996.
Similar
income, different human development 1993
Source: United Nations Development Program, Human
Development Report 1996.
Purchasing
power: Industrialized vs. Developing countries
The gap continues to widen between strong industrialized
economies and those in the developing world.
Source: World Bank 1995 data.
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