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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: The Latest World Population Facts and Figures Were Just Released
Description: Pop Quiz: do you know how many people are in the world right now?  The answer is 7.6 billion.  That data point and much more are contained in a report called "World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision," which was recently published by the UN. The report contains all sorts of facts and figures that are both interesting on its own, but also extremely consequential to understanding the future of our species in a very literal sense.  On the line with me to talk through some of the demographic trends of the world's population, is John Wilmoth, Director of the Population Division at the UN...