Naruhito becomes the new emperor of Japan
After the abdication of 85-year-old Emperor Akihito, who ruled from 1989 to 2019, his son Naruhito became Japan‘s new Emperor at 59 on May…
Graeme Villeret
Novelist. Creator and editor of PopulationData.net.
Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky wins the presidential election
Volodymyr Zelensky has won the presidential election in Ukraine in the second round against incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, with 73.22% of the vote, against…
Indonesia: Joko Widodo should win the elections
In Indonesia, one of the most populous countries in the world with nearly 270 million people, incumbent President Joko Widodo is expected to win…
Sudan: The dictator al-Bashir overthrown by the army
The Sudanese army has just overthrown Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir in a coup. He was dismissed Thursday morning, 11 April, and arrested by the…
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…
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…