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unusual facts about World population



Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators

Greater investment in agricultural research could make a significant contribution to increasing agricultural production to the levels required to feed the world’s growing population.

Nicholas Bozon

His allegories include the Char d'orgueil and the Passion, a soteriological allegory, which depicts Christ as a knight in love who, dressed in the coat-of-arms of his squire Adam, fights Belial in order to rescue his lover, Humanity.


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Edith How-Martyn

She met the American family planning leader Margaret Sanger in 1915 and had been impressed by her ideas, subsequently organising the 1927 World Population Conference in Geneva with Sanger and becoming honorary director of the Birth Control International Information Centre in London in 1930.

Española Island

Tourists come to see the Waved Albatrosses (from March to January, almost the entire world population breeds on the island) and the mating dances of Blue-footed Boobies on Española Island.

Eugene Grebenik

He organised three of the IUSSP's four-yearly general population conferences, including the one held in Belgrade in 1965 in conjunction with the second United Nations world population conference.

Lake Wollumboola

The lake has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it often supports over 1% of the world population of Black Swans, especially in drought years, as well as of Chestnut Teals.

Mongol invasion of Rus'

Colin McEvedy (Atlas of World Population History, 1978) estimates the population of European Russia dropped from 7.5 million prior to the invasion to 7 million afterwards.

Swan Goose

Favorite wintering locations in China are Lake Dongting, Lake Poyang, the Yancheng Coastal Wetlands and other locations around the lower Yangtze River, where some 60,000 individuals may be found each year – though this may be almost the entire world population.