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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Economic factors, rather than medical or cultural influences, will have the greatest impact on global population levels over the next decade, according to a recent University of Missouri College of Arts and Science (COAS) study. According to United Nations figures, the Earth’s population could exceed 8 billion people by the year 2023 if current trends continue. But improvements in economic development, such as higher...

Cell Press In many places around the world, people are living longer and are having fewer children. But that's not all. A study of people living in rural Gambia, published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 25, shows that this modern-day "demographic transition" may lead women to be taller and slimmer, too. "This is a reminder that declines in mortality rates do not necessarily mean that evolution stops, but that it changes," says Ian Rickard of Durham University in the...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The population of our planet will stabilize around the middle of the next century, according to a research team led by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). Global population data from 1900 to 2010 enabled the team to make the prediction using a model normally used by physicists. Their results, published in the journal Simulation, coincide with the United Nation's (UN) downward forecasts. The UN estimates that the global...

Job-education mismatch hurts earnings of new Canadians, Concordia research proves The cab driver who was an engineer in his home country, the gas station attendant who used to teach physics, the cashier who trained as a pediatrician. Time and again, new immigrants find themselves in jobs for which their level of education outstrips the requirements, meaning a major loss for the Canadian economy. In a paper recently published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal ISRN Economics,...

KOLKATA, India, January 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Results announced during Centennial Indian Science Congress 3-7 January 2013 in Kolkata A recent analysis by Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ] shows that India has a 0.6% net inflow of scientists. Moreover, incoming scientists and short-term visiting (or transitory) scientists are significantly more productive than scientists who remain in India and scientists that leave the...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study from Danish researchers suggests that couples who are unable to conceive a child have a shorter life expectancy than those who do. In the study, which was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the scientists from Aarhus University looked at data from more than 21,000 couples who underwent IVF treatment between 1994 and 2005. They saw that 15,000 children were born and almost 1,600 were adopted...

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A new study from the Pew Research Center recently found that the decline in U.S. birth rates following the Great Recession was led by immigrant women, whose birth rates dropped 14 percent between 2007 and 2010. The study was conducted by analyzing data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Census Bureau. The researchers found that, from 2007 to 2010, the overall birth rate dropped by eight percent while the birth...

DENVER, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Aging but active baby boomers, as well as the generations before them, are creating new opportunities and challenges for the U.S. housing industry, in terms of meeting the diverse lifestyle needs of people in various phases of their senior years, according to a new publication from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100310/ULILOGO ) Housing in America - The Baby Boomers Turn 65 explores the...

Children in smaller families are only slightly more likely to survive childhood in high mortality environments, according to a new study of mothers and children in sub-Saharan Africa seeking to understand why women, even in the highest fertility populations in world, rarely give birth to more than eight children. The study by Dr David Lawson and Dr Alex Alvergne from UCL Anthropology, and Dr Mhairi Gibson from the University of Bristol, challenges the popular theory proposed by...

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A study from the National Academies recently revealed that major policy changes are needed to deal with the aging population in the United States and the long-term impact that they will have on the economy. Researchers noted that the economic consequences of the growing aging population will affect younger generations as well as the various federal programs that provide aid to the elderly. They believe that the increasing...