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By 2035, the number of Americans 65 years and older will outnumber children for the first time in US history.
Canada has a rich history of innovation, but in the next few decades, powerful technological forces will transform the global economy.
Saudi Arabia plans the highest level of government spending in its history next year when expenditure will hit more than SR 1.1 trillion ($293 billion).
With the start of what has been called The Asian Century 2020 marks the first year in history that Asian economies as a whole, will generate a higher GDP than the rest of the world.
For the first time in media history a majority of U.S. advertising dollars will be spent on digital media in 2019 (54.2%).
In a world where there was 100% resistance to first-line antimicrobials, by 2050 Canada would lose more than the equivalent of the combined GDPs of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, or one-quarter of the manufacturing sector GDP each and every year.
AMR could lead to a prolonged economic contraction that is rare in Canada's post-war history, about equal to losing more than the combined GDPs of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia or one-quarter the GDP of the manufacturing sector each year if resistance were to reach 100% by 2050.
Sub-Saharan Africa - where the urban proportion of population is below 50 percent - may have the highest rate of urban population growth, although Asian urban populations will continue to grow.
For the first time in more than 70 years, it seems the lessons of the second world war are genuinely at risk of being forgotten or, worse still, being rewritten.
Following a separate £4 million government investment earlier this year, content creators Factory 42 will produce 2 multi-sensory, interactive worlds in London's Natural History Museum and Science Museum to open in 2020.
When history is written, 2019 will most likely be remembered as the beginning of the end of the biggest monetary experiment ever - the year that kicked off a global recession despite the lowest ever nominal and real interest rates in history.
Global digital ad spending is predicted to reach $333.25 billion in 2019, comprising roughly 50% of the total global ad market for the first time in history.
By the middle of this century, the population of people aged 65 and older will outnumber children for the first time in history.
World corn production for 2018-19 is expected to be the second-largest in history, mainly due to larger production prospects from South America.
Earlier this year, Pope Francis warned that if the Catholic Church did not acknowledge its history of male domination and sexual abuse it risked becoming a museum.
Seventy million American baby boomers will turn 70 within the next 15 years, which will fuel the largest population shift in the country's history.
Water supplies are running dangerously low for one-quarter of the world's population, and China will likely meet at least 5 years early its Paris agreement commitment to level off carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
The world is in the midst of an important demographic transition, with the number of people aged ≥ 60 years expected to outnumber the number of children aged < 5 years for the first time in recorded history by 2020.
The aging of baby boomers means that within just a couple of decades, older people are projected to outnumber children for the first-time in U.S. history.
By 2030, Americans aged 65 and older are projected to outnumber children 18 and younger for the first time in US history.

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Last updated: 18 February 2020