World Facts

Just some DYK's as published by the Harvest Field Index and based on the free downloadable CIA World Fact Book 2008.


Do You Know the worlds population size?



Do You Know the world's Average Life Expectancy at Birth?
Answer: 66 years!

Now do you know the answer to the next DYK's?

- Top 3 of biggest continents?
- Top 3 of largest countries?
- Top 3 of biggest world cities?

Just check if your answers are right and you belong to the worldwide best non introvert actuaries,




Answers!


Biggest continents?
1. Asia 4,002 Million people
2. Africa 934 Million people
3. Europe 730 Million people

Largest countries?
1. China 1,330 Million people
2. India 1,148 Million people
3. United States 304 Million people

Biggest World cities?
1. Tokyo, Japan 35 Million people
2. Mexico City, Mexico 20 Million people
3. New York City, U.S. 19 Million people

Demographic Winter

Are we heading for a demographic winter?

Worldwide, birth rates have declined by more than 50% in the past 40 years.

In most of the industrialized world, birth rates are well below replacement level.

Main issue: The decline of the human family.




View the trailer or the complete movie 'Demographic Winter'.

How European are we?

Two demographers, Wolfgang Lutz and IIASA’s Vegard Skirbekk, teamed up with a political scientist Sylvia Kritzinger investigated (2006) the emergence of a sense of European identity.

On the question "How European are you?" they got these results:

Country	Expressing
	European
	identity
Luxemburg	78%
Italy	72%
France	68%
Spain	64%
Belgium	59%
Netherlands	59%
Germany	56%
Denmark	54%
Ireland	53%
Austria	51%
Portugal	50%
Greece	46%
Sweden	45%
Finland	43%
UK	40%

They analyzed and extrapolated the trends found in the Eurobarometer surveys from 1995 to 2004 for the EU-15.

What they found is that there's an emergence of multiple identities across different age groups in Europe today.

People are increasingly feeling that they are both nationals of their home country and Europeans as well.




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