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Population of Canada by province and territory
Canada's ten provinces and three territories held an estimated 41,798,407 people on July 1, 2026, up 0.46%, the slowest growth since 1946. Ontario holds 38.9% of the total.
Population projection
Population projection is a demographic method that estimates the future size and age-sex composition of a population by applying assumptions about fertility, mortality, and migration.
Population pyramid
Population pyramid: a paired bar chart of a population by age and sex, males left, females right. Also called age-sex pyramid. Types: expansive, stationary, constrictive; shapes record famines, wars, and baby booms.
Robin Cavendish
Robin Cavendish (1930-1994), British polio survivor and disability advocate, respirator-dependent from 1958, co-developed the first wheelchair-mounted ventilator with Teddy Hall, founded Netley Waterside House, received an MBE, and is the subject of the 2017 film Breathe.
Rowan Dean
Rowan Dean, Australian advertising executive and conservative commentator born in Canberra; Foster's Lager and Hamlet 'Photobooth' copywriter, Gruen panellist, Spectator Australia editor, Sky News Outsiders co-host.
Rufina Cambaceres
Rufina Eugenia Cambaceres (1883–1902), daughter of novelist Eugenio Cambaceres, died on her 19th birthday; her Recoleta art nouveau tomb anchors Buenos Aires's famous buried-alive legend, which documentary research rejects.
Shi Ping
Shi Ping (施平, born Shi Eryi, 1911-2024) was a Chinese Communist Party educator and supercentenarian, world's oldest verified living man (April-June 2024), former Party Secretary of Beijing Agricultural University and East China Normal University, grandfather of Shi Yigong.
Silent Generation
The Silent Generation is the American cohort born 1928-1945, between the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. Named by TIME in 1951, it is small (about 19 million), conformist and civic-minded in image, and the most Republican living generation.
Siyaram Baba
Siyaram Baba (सियाराम बाबा), Hindu ascetic saint of Bhatyan Ashram, Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, on the Narmada; Hanuman devotee who took only Rs 10 donations; died 11 December 2024, officially aged 94 despite viral claims of 110 to 188 years.
Strauss–Howe generational theory
The Strauss–Howe generational theory, also known as Strauss and Howe, is a theory developed in the 1990s holding that American history cycles through four recurring turnings.
Sub-replacement fertility
Sub-replacement fertility is a total fertility rate below the replacement level of about 2.1 births per woman. Over half of all countries, including India, China, and the US, are below it; global TFR was 2.25 in 2024 and is projected near 1.6 by 2100.
Susannah Mushatt Jones
Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899–2016), American supercentenarian, world's oldest validated living person from June 2015 to May 2016 at 116 years, 311 days; last surviving American born in the 1800s; GRG-validated.
Teenager (word)
Teenager: English word for a person aged 13 to 19, from the -teen numerals; first recorded 1913 (Merriam-Webster), print debut "teen-agers" 1941, popularized in the postwar 1940s-1950s youth market, distinct from WHO's 10-19 adolescent definition.
Thank God for Mississippi
"Thank God for Mississippi" is an American adage, especially Southern, used when a state ranks near the bottom of national tables because Mississippi ranks last. First in print 1945; fading in education after the Mississippi Miracle.
The Population Bomb
The Population Bomb is Paul Ehrlich's 1968 Sierra Club book predicting mass 1970s famine from overpopulation; it sold about 2 million copies, founded the ZPG movement, and its failed forecasts made it a landmark of discredited Malthusian demography.
Two-child policy
Two-child policy: China's 2016 universal two-child policy (全面两孩), replacing the one-child policy, and Vietnam's 1988 two-child limit, abolished 2025; covers birth effects, sex ratio, and the 2021 three-child shift.
Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl: low-density, dispersed outward growth of cities, first named in the late 1940s. Measured by density, fragmentation, and centrality; built-up land has grown twice as fast as population since 1975, driving compact-city and smart-growth policies.
Violet Brown
Violet Brown (née Moss, Mosse), Jamaican supercentenarian (10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017), oldest verified living person from April to September 2017 at 117 years 189 days, first verified Jamaican supercentenarian and oldest verified Jamaican ever.
Week
The week is a seven-day time cycle standing between day and month. It derives from Babylonian lunar divisions and the planetary week, was standardized in Rome and adopted by Constantine in 321 CE, and is numbered today under ISO 8601 (Monday first, 52 or 53 weeks).
World population
World population: total number of living humans, 8.2 billion in 2024 (UN WPP 2024; Census Bureau 8.09 billion in 2025). Growth peaked at 2.3% in 1963; UN projects a mid-2080s peak near 10.3 billion, Census Bureau 10.6 billion in 2093.
World Population Prospects
World Population Prospects (WPP) is the UN Population Division's official population estimates and projections series, 28 editions since 1951, covering 237 countries, 1950-2100; the 2024 revision projects a mid-2080s peak at 10.3 billion.
Xennials
Xennials are an informal microgeneration born in the late 1970s to early 1980s, between Generation X and Millennials, also called the Oregon Trail Generation or Generation Catalano; the term was coined by Sarah Stankorb in 2014.
Youth
Youth is the life stage between childhood and adulthood; the UN defines it statistically as ages 15-24 (1.2 billion people, 16% of the global population), with overlapping adolescent (10-19) and young people (10-24) brackets.
Zalphas
Zalphas (Zalpha, Gen ZAlpha) are a micro-generation born on the cusp of Generation Z and Generation Alpha, roughly late 2000s to early 2010s; ranges vary (2006–2012, 2008–2014, 2010–2015) and the cohort is described as pandemic-era digital natives.
Zillennials
Zillennials (also Zennials) are a micro-generation born about 1993-1998 on the cusp of Millennials and Gen Z; an informal, self-applied label with no official standing, defined by shared-computer childhoods, smartphones in school, and Covid-19 at the start of working life.