Post date: Oct 20, 2011 12:40:18 PM
The recent fall of financial markets has surely diverted people's attention towards social issues like rampant corruption and growing violent demonstrations against state's infrastructure.
No one uses population stats to confirm that:
Today financial institutions are unable to cope with population increase hence the large difference in new jobs created and unemployed people.
The economy is not going down. We are using almost same resources as last 3 years, but the physical value decided by "market fundamentals" has gone down. The growth numbers for India-China are because of growing population and very little to do with any development on the ground.
The state infrastructure remains poor and will need attention in the coming years. It cannot support the current population numbers.
Big environmental shifts will start showing there true colors in the coming decade, (probably the hype & talk of climate change will subside by then)
UN-EVEN climate (rain, flooding, drought > is already a "normal" phenomenon these days, gone are the days of "seasons")
Population stats when correctly used can be very powerful tools to counteract <glorified> claims of governments/institutions [who misuse statistics to promote there personal interests].