Catastrophic floods in Mozambique
Catastrophic floods have occurred in the Beira region, a large city of about 650,000 people in central Mozambique, after cyclone Idai. For the time…
Graeme Villeret
Novelist. Creator and editor of PopulationData.net.
Nursultan Nazarbayev, President-dictator of Kazakhstan, resigns
To everyone’s surprise, Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned today, 19 March, as President of Kazakhstan. He had been in power since 1984 – when he was…
February 2019 was one of the hottest in history in Europe
As we have seen hundreds of millions of Europeans, the month of February was one of the hottest in history. And the map of…
Immigration in the world
International migration is a major component of the history of humanity. Since the dawn of time, humans migrate, move, evolve on the planet in…
The world is greening since 2000
NASA has published a map showing that since 2000, the world has generally been greening. With astonishing as it may seem, China and India…
82 million people in Turkey
Turkey has just exceeded 82 million inhabitants. Its population continues to grow strongly, with even an acceleration in 2018 (+ 1.47%) compared to the…
Venezuela: Juan Guaido proclaims himself president of the country
In Venezuela, the president of the parliament Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself president of the country acting while taking an oath today 23 January, anniversary…
67 million inhabitants in France in 2019
As of January 1, 2019, France had almost 67 million inhabitants, precisely 66 992 699 according to the latest count of the French National…
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Difficult alternation of power
After two years of waiting, the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have finally been able to vote to elect a new…
China’s population continues to rise
China‘s population continues to increase. Slowly, more and more slowly, but it increases again. In a few years, it will begin a decline, but…