UK population to reach 70 mln by 2028, study says
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The UK population will grow by almost 5 million to 65 million by 2016 and will pass the 70 million mark in 2028, according to official estimates Tuesday.
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Average pay rises in the UK reached their highest level in 15 years at the end of 2007, according to a survey.
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By next year, more than half the worldâs population, 3.3 billion people, will for the first time live in towns and cities, a report said.
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Millions more health workers are needed if global health is going to be improved over the next decade, a study says.
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A forecast by the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission shows that a third baby boom is expected in the next 10 years, and the annual number of newborns is expected to reach a peak of 160,000 in 2014 and 2015.
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An "increasing pool" of people in the UK are living with HIV and Aids, official statistics show.
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The Soylent wing of the Green movement examined The enviroloonies seem to have found their way out of the asylum again: this time to tell us that 70 per cent of Britons should die for the sake of Gaia. That's not quite the way they put it, of course. Rather, the Optimum Population Trust (there's a pedantic part of me that wants to tell them it's Optimal) tells us that the maximum sustainable population of the UK is 17 million: given that there are north of 60 million currently, we can only avert the coming End Times if the extra pop their clogs soonest.â¦
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There are now 1.8 million people in the UK with diabetes - up by 400,000 in just eight years, a report has revealed. Experts fear the number will surge further in coming years as the population becomes older and fatter.
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China hopes its middle class will expand to more than half of its total population by 2020, a Communist Party planner said Wednesday.
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up 400,000 in just eight years, a report reveals. And experts warn the figure could grow to three million sufferers by 2010 as we get older and fatter.
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China&#39;s population, already the largest in the world, will peak at 1.46 billion in 30 years, straining the country&#39;s healthcare system, putting pressure on jobs, and gobbling up a greater share of the world&#39;s food and energy resources.
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In five years only the U.S. will be ahead of the U.K., according to a study identifying world's best locations for attracting talent.
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The number of surplus school places in England has risen to 758,000 - the highest level since 1998.
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US researchers say world population will continue to grow at a vigorous pace in decades to come, even as overall global fertility rates continue on a downward trend.
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LONDON : British insurance giant Aviva announced plans to export 950 more jobs to India and Sri Lanka next year, with a total of 7,000 staff expected to be offshored by the end of 2007.
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JupiterResearch,  a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer  technologies on business, predicts that 70 percent of US homes --  some 86 million households -- will have  broadband Internet access by 2012.
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The number of students who applied for university courses in England has risen by over 7%,  figures show.