Peruvians’ economy has grown steadily since 1990, with the country now one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.And its economy is growing faster than its neighbours, China and Brazil.But the Peruvian economy is still struggling with inflation, poverty and a shrinking middle class.Inflation is the highest in the world.It’s expected to hit 2 per cent this […]
The term Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease that has been spreading rapidly across Latin America, has been described by experts as the most devastating of all the world’s pandemics.But it has been widely misunderstood, and many experts have argued that the term Zika means just one thing: a virus that causes an abnormal, sometimes fatal […]
What is population?If you were wondering what the population of an area is, that would be population, which is the number of people living there at any given moment.However, population is also a bit of a misnomer.It’s the total number of human beings living in an area at any one time.For example, if there are […]
Australia’s population hit 4.2 million in 2016, the most recent figures available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).The increase was largely due to people moving to the country from overseas and the arrival of the first baby in 2019, according to ABS figures.As a result, the total population rose by more than 1 million […]
Peruvian population in 2018 was 4,944,955 people, making it the third lowest in Latin America.The country had a population of 4.5 million in 2000.The US had the most Peruvians at 2.4 million, followed by Colombia with 1.8 million and Peru at 1.6 million.Peruvian president Ollanta Humala, who took office in October last year, promised to […]
By now you’ve probably noticed that the number of Detroit residents ages 18-64 increased by nearly 4% in the first quarter of 2018.That’s right, the number jumped to 4.9 million, a number that jumped even further after the city’s budget crisis.In terms of percentage growth, Detroit’s population has grown by nearly 3.5 million since its […]
2 May 2018 13:11:58The European Parliament is due to elect a new president on Friday after the European Central Bank announced it will be lending the continent’s fifth largest economy to help bail it out of its worst economic crisis in decades.But the result could be far from assured for President Tsipras, who has vowed […]
New York City’s population is expected to drop by more than half over the next 10 years as the city becomes less populated by its largest metropolitan area.The new census figures show that the city will lose nearly 14 million people by 2026, a figure that is expected by 2030 to be less than half […]
A couple of months ago, the New York City Police Department announced that it would be taking the lead on a nationwide initiative aimed at stopping the “disproportionately” high number of people of color and people with disabilities in the city.The program is called “Black Lives Matter.” The plan is being led by the NYPD’s Intelligence […]
The next generation of moviegoers will be watching more anime, movies, and music in 2020 than ever before, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be buying less of it.According to Nielsen, more than three quarters of Americans aged 18 to 34 say they plan to buy more of each genre this year, up from 59% in […]