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Today’s Turkey is a country of about 76 million people, up from 56.5 million in 1990, making it the second largest European NATO country after Germany. However, the recent report by the UNFPA estimates that by 2050 the population of Turkey will reach 100 million people, making it the largest country in Europe outside Russia.

Not only is Turkey becoming the largest country in Europe after Russia, many of its cities have become larger than some states in Europe. For example, Ankara alone with its population of about 4.5 million is larger than most newly independent states of the former Yugoslavia. The population is the youngest in Europe, too, with almost 27.2 percent of the population – or about 18 million people – below the age of 14 in 2009.
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program


Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged Turkish families to have at least three children, saying a greater population will increase Turkey's power.
"The more our population increases, the more we will be powerful," Aksam newspaper quoted Erdogan as saying.
Erdogan: Have at least 3 children

According to the latest population census results, released in January by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), Turkey has a young population, with the average age calculated as around 28 years. Half of the population is younger and around 26 percent is under 14.
Erdoğan, addressing a group of women in a gathering held in İstanbul on March 8 to mark International Women's Day, urged them to have at least three children.
“Turkey currently has a young population, but if current trends continue it will be aging by 2038. Western societies are currently facing an aging population problem. Every family should have three children if we wish to preserve Turkey’s young population. I have four children and I wish I had more. Children are a blessing,” he said.
Society reacts to PM's call for couples to have 3 kids

Turkey should adopt the German model of "Kinder Geld", which means "children money", so state gives every month till 18 years age assisting money to raise the child.

 

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This is the one of the arguments against admitting Turkey to the EU.

 

[waltky]

Indians not much on birth control...

India now home to 17% of world’s population: census
Sat, Apr 02, 2011 - The first results from India’s latest census — the second biggest in the world — were released on Thursday, revealing that the country has added 181 million new citizens in the last decade, making it home to 17 percent of the world’s population.

China remains the most populous country on the planet, with 1.34 billion, but India is closing the gap with 1.21 billion. The additional Indians found by the census are roughly equivalent to the population of Brazil, the fifth-largest country in the world. One Indian state alone — Uttar Pradesh — now has a population of 199,500,000 people, just under that of Britain, France and Germany combined.

However C. Chandramouli, the census commissioner, told reporters in New Delhi that the new count showed population growth in India had slowed. The 17.6 percent increase was down from 21.5 percent recorded in 2001. Though Indian economists and politicians talk frequently of the “demographic dividend” from the hundreds of millions of young people in their country, there is fear that overpopulation is placing a huge strain on poor social services and infrastructure.

The first modern census in India was conducted under British rule in 1872. Since then, Indian census officials have gone forth more or less every decade. The most recent exercise involved 2.3 million “enumerators” traveling to more than 630,000 villages and more than 5,000 cities, logging how many people live in any one place, establishing identities and ages, and noting details such as whether a household has air conditioning, a car, a computer, telephones and Internet access, as well as basics such as water and power.

The controversial question of caste, the ancient hierarchy rooted in the Hindu religion which permeates all parts of Indian society, has been left to a separate census. Care was taken to include the homeless, with enumerators, who are often schoolteachers, scouring streets and railway stations to arrive at an accurate count.

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Rats, they breed you know.

 

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Today’s Turkey is a country of about 76 million people, up from 56.5 million in 1990, making it the second largest European NATO country after Germany. However, the recent report by the UNFPA estimates that by 2050 the population of Turkey will reach 100 million people, making it the largest country in Europe outside Russia.

Not only is Turkey becoming the largest country in Europe after Russia, many of its cities have become larger than some states in Europe. For example, Ankara alone with its population of about 4.5 million is larger than most newly independent states of the former Yugoslavia. The population is the youngest in Europe, too, with almost 27.2 percent of the population – or about 18 million people – below the age of 14 in 2009.
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program


Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged Turkish families to have at least three children, saying a greater population will increase Turkey's power.
"The more our population increases, the more we will be powerful," Aksam newspaper quoted Erdogan as saying.
Erdogan: Have at least 3 children

According to the latest population census results, released in January by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), Turkey has a young population, with the average age calculated as around 28 years. Half of the population is younger and around 26 percent is under 14.
Erdoğan, addressing a group of women in a gathering held in İstanbul on March 8 to mark International Women's Day, urged them to have at least three children.
“Turkey currently has a young population, but if current trends continue it will be aging by 2038. Western societies are currently facing an aging population problem. Every family should have three children if we wish to preserve Turkey’s young population. I have four children and I wish I had more. Children are a blessing,” he said.
Society reacts to PM's call for couples to have 3 kids

Turkey should adopt the German model of "Kinder Geld", which means "children money", so state gives every month till 18 years age assisting money to raise the child.

It's great news, soon Kurds will outnumber 'Turks' and the thugs that run the Turkish government will be forced to build a multi-cultural society, and recognize the various genocides the Turkish state has committed over the past few centuries.

 

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Granny says, "Well, it might work in a pinch as a substitute for a good colonic...

Meditation might ward off effects of aging
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 - A study at a Buddhist retreat suggests relaxation techniques can protect our chromosomes from degenerating

High in the mountains of northern Colorado, a 30m-tall tower reaches up through the treetops. Brightly colored and strung with garlands, its ornate gold leaf glints in the sun. With a shape that symbolizes a giant seated Buddha, this lofty stupa is intended to inspire those on the path to enlightenment.

Visitors here to the Shambhala Mountain Center meditate in silence for up to 10 hours every day, emulating the lifestyle that monks have chosen for centuries in mountain refuges from India to Japan. But is it doing them any good? For two three-month retreats held in 2007, this haven for the eastern spiritual tradition opened its doors to Western science. As attendees pondered the “four immeasurables” of love, compassion, joy and equanimity, a laboratory squeezed into the basement bristled with scientific equipment from brain and heart monitors to video cameras and centrifuges. The aim: to find out exactly what happens to people who meditate.

After several years of number-crunching, data from the so-called Shamatha project is finally starting to be published. So far the research has shown some not hugely surprising psychological and cognitive changes — improvements in perception and wellbeing, for example. But one result in particular has potentially stunning implications: that by protecting caps called telomeres on the ends of our chromosomes, meditation might help to delay the process of aging.

It’s the kind of claim more often associated with pseudoscience. Indeed, since researchers first started studying meditation, with its close links to religion and spirituality, they have had a tough time gaining scientific credibility. “A great danger in the field is that many researchers are also meditators, with a feeling about how powerful and useful these practices are,” says Charles Raison, who studies mind-body interactions at Emory University in Atlanta. “There has been a tendency for people to be attempting to prove what they already know.”

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China census shows aging populace
Fri, Apr 29, 2011 - GLAD TO BE GRAY?China’s rapid aging has fueled fears over how long the country can sustain its stellar economic growth, with fewer young people available to work

China’s population is aging rapidly, the government said yesterday, though its leaders are refusing to relax strict family planning controls that are part of the cause. The results of a national census conducted late last year show the proportion of elderly people in the country of 1.34 billion jumped, while that of young people plunged sharply. The census results, announced yesterday, also show that half the population now lives in cities.

The census adds data to the world-changing shifts under way in China in the past decade, as economic reforms raise living standards and pull more people off farms into the cities while families get smaller and the population ages. China’s rapid aging has fueled worries over how long the country will be able to sustain its high economic growth, as fewer young people are available to work in factories and build the roads that transformed it into the world’s second biggest economy after the US.

The census results show that people aged 60 and above comprise 13.3 percent of the population, up nearly 3 percentage points from 2000. Young people aged 14 and below accounted for 16.6 percent, down 6.3 percentage points from a decade ago.

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Africans need to get their sex drive under control...

World population growth racing ahead, UN reports
May 5, 2011 - Africa . . . population could more than triple in this century to 3.6 billion.

THE world's population, long expected to stabilise just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may even hit 10.1 billion by 2100, a United Nations report said. Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in this century, from 1 billion at present to 3.6 billion, the report said - a sobering forecast for a continent already struggling to provide food and water for its people. The report, released on Tuesday, comes just months ahead of a demographic milestone - the world population is expected to exceed 7 billion in late October, only a dozen years after it surpassed 6 billion.

Demographers labelled the new projections as a reminder that a problem that helped define global politics in the 20th century was still far from solved. ''Every billion more people makes life more difficult for everybody - it's as simple as that,'' said John Bongaarts, a demographer at the Population Council, a research group in New York. ''Is it the end of the world? No. Can we feed 10 billion people? Probably. But we obviously would be better off with a smaller population.''

The projections were made by the UN population division, which has a track record of fairly accurate forecasts. In the new report, the division raised its forecast for 2050, arriving at a figure of 9.3 billion, an increase of 156 million over the previous estimate for that year, published in 2008. Among factors behind the reisions is that fertility is not declining as rapidly as expected in some poor countries and has shown a slight increase in some wealthier countries. The US is growing faster than many rich countries, largely due to high immigration and higher fertility among Hispanic immigrants.

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