OpenFactBook.orgArgentina
Population: 45,418,098
GDP per capita: $26,500
Capital: Buenos Aires
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Colombia
Population: 49,842,298
GDP per capita: $18,500
Capital: Bogotá
froggfish“Where’s Russia on this map?” GeoFort made this population cartogram of 2050: the more people, the bigger the country appears. Suddenly Europe looks tiny next to China, India, and Africa. Which means more math, physics, and AI students in Asia & more innovations from the East. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/willemijn-simon-van-leeuwen-7772855_wheres-russia-on-this-map-i-often-ask-activity-7361827689357287424--HfG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACBn0kB88LC_AuxJYOiu7BmjcULpYgammE #cartography #worldpopulation
DrWebWhy do ageing rates vary by country? Massive study says politics play a part – Nature
A woman living in a town with heavy air pollution in South Africa, where people tend to age faster than in other countries. Air pollution is a risk factor for faster ageing. Credit: Per-Anders Pettersson / GettySocial inequality and weak democratic institutions are linked to faster ageing, as are other environmental features such as high levels of air pollution, finds a study spanning four continents1. Education was one of the top factors that protected against faster ageing.
The study also showed that ageing is accelerated by less-surprising factors such as high blood pressure and heart disease. But the link to social and political influences could help to explain why rates of ageing vary from country to country, the authors say.
“It’s a very important study”, says Claudia Kimie Suemoto, a geriatrician at the University of São Paulo in Brazil who was not involved in the work. “It gives us the global perspective of how these dependent factors shape ageing in different regions of the world.”
Political polarization and uncertainty mean that “we are living in a world of despair”, and that ages people, says lead author Agustín Ibañez, who directs the Latin American Brain Health Institute in Santiago. “We don’t think about the health impacts that this is going to have in the long run.”
The study was published today in Nature Medicine. Citation: Hernandez, H. et al. Nature Med. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03808-2 (2025).
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A Critical Analysis of Current World Population Studies
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d5979630e125">Current demographic studies are based on the Malthusian principle of population, which makes a direct extrapolation of the natural law of population of the animal kingdom to the human system. This is in contrast to Marx’s understanding of population, for whom population is determined by historical laws of social production superimposed on biological laws. Analysis of the neo-Malthusian studies on population shows that they are merely quantitative and phenomenological, fail to understand population phenomena, and end up being tautological and functional to the capitalist system. A Marxist view of population based on dialectics and materialism, explains the evolution of population throughout human history and during capitalism. Such analysis allows us to understand the current decline in the rate of population growth and the expected decline in the world population as indicators of the terminal crisis of the social production system based on the reproduction of capital through commodity production and labor exploitation. </p>
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