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The number of web users in China has risen over 700 million.

• 03 августа 2016, 16:38

Qatar's population has reached 2.5 million people, swollen by the huge numbers of foreign workers employed in the tiny Gulf emirate.

• 03 марта 2016, 00:27

One person is born every 113 seconds and one person dies each 200 seconds in Kazakhstan.

• 24 января 2015, 00:42

A quarter of the world's population will be African within 35 years as the continent's birth rates continue to rapidly rise.

• 13 августа 2014, 14:09

The population of Zhanaozen town in western Kazakhstan has exceeded the development plan.

• 18 мая 2014, 21:03

London has more billionaires than any other city in the world, and Britain has more billionaires per head of population than any other country, new data showed.

• 11 мая 2014, 11:53

The population in Kazakhstan's northern regions may shrink by nearly one million people by 35 years, and become four times smaller than that of the southern areas.

• 24 апреля 2014, 18:59

PM Tony Abbott admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal life expectancy, education and employment, but insisted progress has been made in other areas.

• 12 февраля 2014, 17:24

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday urged young couples to get off to a "galloping start" in the Year of the Horse by having more babies to boost flagging birth rates.

• 30 января 2014, 14:48

Europe's bat population recovered by more than 40 percent between 1993 and 2011 after decades of decline.

• 30 января 2014, 12:57

The jaguar could soon become extinct in Brazil's tropical Atlantic forest, threatening the shrinking primitive forest itself.

• 28 января 2014, 12:55

As of September 1, 2013, the country’s population stood at slightly over 17 million.

• 21 января 2014, 13:20

Member of the Majilis (Lower Chamber of the Parliament) Tursynbek Omurzakov has offered to increase one-time benefit at child birth.

• 07 января 2014, 15:25

China's top legislative committee on Saturday formally abolished the country's "re-education through labour" camps and approved a loosening of its one-child policy, state media reported.

• 28 декабря 2013, 12:11

The world's tiny but hugely successful Zoroastrian community will confront a demographic crisis which threatens its very existence when it gathers en masse in its spiritual home of Mumbai this week.

• 27 декабря 2013, 11:04

Lands around Astana are distributed haphazardly and their further use is not controlled. President Nazarbayev wants more order and less squatting.

• 01 декабря 2013, 22:49

Australia's feral camel population numbers around 300,000, far fewer than the one million generally cited, a new study showed Thursday after a four-year cull removed 160,000.

• 21 ноября 2013, 17:24

Beijing's relaxation of its hugely controversial one-child policy is an attention-grabbing first step, but it will have to usher in greater changes if China is to tackle its looming demographic timebomb, experts say.

• 16 ноября 2013, 14:51

As the greatest urbanisation drive in history swells China's cities with ranks of identikit apartment blocks, one culinary businessman is indulging his architectural appetite with a visual feast of extravagant, outlandish castles.

• 16 ноября 2013, 11:00

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pleaded Wednesday in Niger, the country with the world's highest fertility rate, for better reproductive health to curb the Sahel region's runaway demographic growth.

• 07 ноября 2013, 17:30