After many years of slow growth in the number of foreign workers migrating to Japan, Japan has increased its efforts to attract new foreign workers in the past couple of years. The number of foreigners working in Japan has reached a new high of more than 1.8 million in 2022. Since the Japanese population is aging quickly, the Japanese government is feeling the need to bring in talent from abroad.
According to a report by NGO Smart Growth America, the states considered to be the most dangerous ones for pedestrians in the United States are New Mexico and Florida. The two metro areas in the U.S. with the highest average rates of pedestrian deaths are also situated in these states. South Carolina, with the top 5 most dangerous metro to pedestrians, is the only other state that counted an annual average of more than 3 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 of population between 2016 and 2020.
According to a survey by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), only
8% of the world’s population actually lives in a full, functioning democracy.
Meanwhile, another 37% of population lives in some type of
“flawed democracy”, while 55% of the world does not live in democracy at all,
based on the EIU’s latest Democracy Index Report.
Factors that have caused numerous declines to country democracy scores in recent years include Events such as the war in Ukraine and restrictive, long-lasting COVID-19 measures. Since the source report first began tracking scores in 2006, the global average has fallen from 5.52 to 5.29.
Our global population is getting older. It is predicted by the OECD that by 2050, 30% of people worldwide will be aged 65 or over.
Some countries are well prepared to handle the increase in
the elderly demographic, while most of the countries are already feeling the
squeeze and stress with the challenges that come with a speedily aging
population.
In order to find out which countries are well prepared to
support their senior citizens, the infographic shows a detailed view. It uses
data from the 2022 Natixis Global Retirement Index to show the best countries
to retire in around the world, based on a number of different aspects that we
will look into.
This is a quite surprising fact that the global urban population has taken over the rural population. According to the records of the year 2007, the two groups were split nearly 50/50, with around 3.3 billion people apiece. In today’s date, the percentage of people who live in the urban areas has grown to be over 55% and is expected to reach 68% by the year 2050. It is because of this trend that many of the world’s largest cities have become home to millions of people.
Due to this increasing density in the urban areas, different
businesses, households and also governments have installed numerous security
cameras which could serve many purposes but the mainly being crime protection.
To get a hold of the scale of this surveillance, data from a recent report by
Comparitech is taken which helps to visualize the most surveilled cities in the
world.
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