Questions tagged [demographics]
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Are Generation Y yuppies unhappy?
An recent article from Wait But Why titled Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy blames young professionals for being unhappy because their expectations are too high; they believe themselves special.
each individual [Generation Y Yuppie] thinks that…
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Will the human population reach 8-9 billion around 2050 and then decline?
In a January 2019 Guardian article, What goes up: are predictions of a population crisis wrong?, Darrel Bricker and John Ibbitson claim:
the human population will top out at somewhere between 8 and 9 billion around the middle of the century, and…
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Is Melbourne the third-largest `Greek city' in the world?
Melbourne, Victoria has a large number of people with Greek heritage. It often has claims that its Greek population rivals cities in Greece. For example:
EMelbourne
By 2004 Melbourne's Greek community was considered the largest outside Greece, and…
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As of 26 July 2023, will four million US citizens turn 18 before the US presidential election (5 November 2024)?
Goodbye Republicans. Your damn days are numbered.
4,000,000
17 year olds
turn 18
before the
November election
Twitter (5k+ retweets, 21k+ likes); screenshot on Reddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter (score 30k+)
The above tweet (dated 26 July 2023) from…
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Did over 1 million people protest in Santiago in the 2019 Chilean protests?
Spanish newspaper, El País published a recent article about the 2019 Chilean Protests:
La manifestación más grande de Chile desde que cayó en 1990 el dictador Augusto Pinochet reunió este viernes en Santiago de Chile a al menos un millón de…
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