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Demographics of Zimbabwe
The demographics of Zimbabwe cover the country's population, which the 2022 census counted at 15,178,979, up 16.2 percent from 2012, with a young median age of 17.8 years.
Demography
Demography, also called population studies, is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition, and distribution, shaped by fertility, mortality, and migration, using census, survey, and vital registration data and methods from life tables to projections.
Demography of the Netherlands
Demography of the Netherlands: Dutch population statistics, 17.8-18 million inhabitants, growth driven 97% by migration, ageing population, and CBS census history and forecasts.
Dependency ratio
The dependency ratio expresses dependents (under 15 or 65+) per 100 people of working age (15–64); also child and old-age dependency ratios; used in demographic dividend and fiscal aging analysis.
Dorothy Wiggins
Dorothy Katz Wiggins (born August 14, 1925), American centenarian social media influencer, socialite, and former stylist on Instagram and TikTok; still plays tennis at 100, tossed the 2025 US Open coin, and is distinct from the Georgia pediatrician Dorothy P. Wiggins.
Eilif Philipsen
Eilif Philipsen (1682-1785), Norwegian farmer from Kinsarvik near Bergen, long recognized as the earliest-born verified centenarian; documented by baptism, 1701 census, marriage, and death records, aged 102 years 334 days at death.
Emma Morano
Emma Martina Luigia Morano (1899–2017), Italian supercentenarian of Verbania, died at 117 years 137 days as the last verified person born in the 19th century and Guinness-confirmed oldest living person from May 2016; also the oldest Italian ever verified.
Estimates of historical world population
Estimates of historical world population reconstruct human numbers before modern censuses using tax lists, registers, archaeology, and datasets like HYDE, Gapminder, and McEvedy-Jones, anchored from 1950 onward by the UN World Population Prospects.
Ethel Caterham
Ethel Caterham (née Collins, born 21 August 1909) is an English supercentenarian, the world's oldest verified living person since April 2025 and the first Briton to reach 117.
Ethnic origins of people in Canada
Ethnic origins of people in Canada: census-reported ancestral origins of Canadians' ancestors, asked since 1871. The 2021 Census recorded over 450 origins, top ones being Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish, and French; 2021 data are not comparable with earlier censuses.
Famine in Sudan (2024–present)
Famine in Sudan (2024–present): IPC-confirmed famine in Darfur and Kordofan during the SAF–RSF war that began April 2023, first confirmed in Zamzam camp, later El Fasher, Kadugli, and the Western Nuba Mountains, with millions in Phase 3+ hunger.
Generación de los 60
Generación de los 60 is the group of Salvadoran writers and poets who came of age in the 1960s, the most visible phase of the Generación Comprometida.
Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha) is the cohort born roughly 2010–2024 after Gen Z, coined by Mark McCrindle; over 2 billion people, the first all-21st-century, smartphone-native generation, followed by Generation Beta.
Generation Beta
Generation Beta (Gen Beta) is the proposed cohort after Generation Alpha, born 2025–2039 under Mark McCrindle's definition; ~2.1 billion projected, mostly children of Gen Z, not formally adopted by Pew.
Generation Jones
Generation Jones, or Gen Jones, is a cohort born in the Western world roughly between 1954 and 1965, positioned between Baby Boomers and Generation X and named by Jonathan Pontell.
Generation X
Generation X (Gen X) is the cohort born roughly 1965–1980, between Baby Boomers and Millennials, about 55 million Americans. Named via Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel; known for self-reliance and skepticism, also called the MTV generation.
Generation Z
Generation Z, the cohort after Millennials born from 1997 onward per Pew Research Center, defined by formative technology, no memory of 9/11, and debated boundaries.
Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation is the American cohort born about 1901-1927, also called the G.I. Generation, shaped by the Great Depression and World War II; the name was popularized by Tom Brokaw's 1998 book, not coined by him.
Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States
Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States: how census race and ethnicity categories evolved from 1790's three categories to the 2024 SPD 15 revision adding a MENA category and a combined question.
Human extinction
Human extinction is the end of the human species, studied as existential risk, a term Nick Bostrom coined in 2002. Natural background rate is below 1 in 870,000 per year; anthropogenic risks include nuclear war, AI, and engineered pathogens.
Human geography
Human geography is one of geography's two major branches, alongside physical geography, studying how people's lives and activities are arranged spatially, with subfields including cultural, economic, political, and urban geography.
Human overpopulation
Human overpopulation: the claim that population exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Also Malthusianism. Current UN WPP 2024 projects peak at 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s; fertility at 2.25; carrying capacity estimates 7.7-12 billion.
Human population planning
Human population planning: deliberate government efforts to influence population size, growth, and structure, via pro-natalist or anti-natalist policies, distinct from individual family planning; spans Malthusian era, China's one-child policy, and modern pro-natalist programs in China, Japan, South Korea, and Hungary.
Human sex ratio
Human sex ratio: ratio of males to females, especially the sex ratio at birth (SRB), about 1.05 male per female live births naturally. Covers conception-to-birth trajectory, regional baselines (1.031-1.067), and the 12 countries with SRB imbalance and 23.1 million missing female births.
Indonesians
Indonesians are the people of Indonesia, about 285.7 million in 2025, 55.65% on Java, with over 600 ethnic groups, roughly 700 regional languages, a Muslim majority, and Bahasa Indonesia as the unifying national language.
Irreligion in the United States
Irreligion in the United States: religiously unaffiliated Americans ("nones"), atheists, agnostics, and "nothing in particular," about 29% of adults per Pew 2023-24, up from 16% in 2007, plateaued since 2020.
João Marinho Neto
João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912, Maranguape, Ceará) is a Brazilian supercentenarian, validated by LongeviQuest and Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living man since 25 November 2024, and the first Brazilian to hold that title.
Latte Line
The latte line is Sydney's informal socioeconomic boundary separating the affluent north-east from the less affluent south-west, running roughly from Sydney Airport past Parramatta; variants include the Red Rooster Line and Quinoa Curtain.
List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita
Country ranking of alcohol consumption per capita in litres of pure alcohol per person aged 15+ per year (WHO SDG 3.5.2), combining recorded and unrecorded consumption; 2019 leaders Estonia 11.65 and France 11.44 versus a 5.8-litre global average.
List of Japanese supercentenarians
List of Japanese supercentenarians: validated Japanese people aged 110+, curated by the GRG with MHLW records. Covers early cases like Yoshigiku Ito, record-holders Kane Tanaka and Tomiko Itooka, and current oldest Fuyo Kishimoto.