STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Every ten years the United States government counts the national population and asks people questions about how they live. Results fr...
World Population Day is observed annually on July 11. Its aim is to raise awareness of global population problems. The event started in 1989 in response to the worlds population reaching five billion two years earlier. The United Nations Development...
The worlds population is getting bigger and bigger. Theres a population explosion in some countries. Im not sure if this is good or bad. The Earth can only support a limited number of people. One day, the worlds population will be too big to feed eve...
Alice: Hello! Im Alice and this is 6 Minute English. Im joined today by Abdu. Hi Abdu. Abdu: Hi Alice. Alice: Today were talking about ageing populations, pensions and retirement. Im going to start by asking you Abdu what age do you expect to retire?...
据新华社报道，十二五（2011-2015）计划期末，我国人口总量将达到 13.9亿左右，城镇人口将首次超过农村人口。60岁及以上老年人口在十二五期间将年均净增800万，并在2015年突破2亿。上世纪8...
China's one-child policy combined with the preference for sons has skewed the population toward males. New research showing a strong correlation between that sex imbalance and savings rates offers some unexpected insights for financial services firms...
The U.S. population is increasing at nearly one percent a year, making the United States the world's fastest growing industrial nation. 美国人口正以每年将近1%的速度增长，这使美国成为世界人口增长最快的工业化国家。...
According to the 2010 World Population Data Sheet, there will be fewer workers to support an aging population in the coming decades. The booming population growth of the past century has slowed, but improving health conditions and stubbornly high bir...
2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Ten years ago, on the eve of World Population Day, a new campaign was launched to raise awareness of how int...
[00:01.55]People need basic necessities [00:04.15]such as food,clothes and houses. [00:08.52]This means that more of our natural resources [00:11.87]like oil and coal are used [00:14.98]up to produce these things. [00:17.55]Also, more of our environm...
