Demographics
Mapping where most people live in 2025
Researchers at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR), a part
of The Earth Institute, have developed a high-resolution map of
projected population change for the year 2025. From 2006 Science Daily.
Rise and fall of regional populations, 1900-2050
Here’s another one of our ongoing Google Motion Capture charts. This one focuses on the change in regional populations for the period 1900-2050 (with projections from the UN database), in the context of each regional population’s share of the global total. After you play it through a time or two, you might try stopping and [...]
Google Motion Chart: Urban populations on 6 continents, AD 1900-2025
Once again using data from World Christian Trends, we present another Google Motion Chart, this one tracking the rise of urban populations for the period 1900-2025.
See it online here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pNdFoF0MY0lkZ-2zLXAreJg.
I look forward to your comments.
Google Motion Chart: Global Population by Religion, 1800-2025
Some time back I was very interested in the development of Motion Chart software by Gapminder.org. The software was acquired by Google and for a very long time it was impossible for anyone to use the software with their own data sets. Now this has changed, and Google Motion Charts are Spreadsheet Objects. I have [...]
The Next Generation of Global leaders
548 others just like Zhang and me met in Malaysia. Young. Leaders. Passionate. Weak. Hopeful. Sinful. Globally-minded. Unified. Most of you will never have the opportunity to know the young global leaders who are serving the Church, but I want you to know a few things.
Postmoderns & Muslims: the relationship factor
Recently, there has been a growing awareness that significant similarities exist between most Islamic contexts and what may be considered the emerging postmodern Western subculture, particularly in the United States. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on one specific instance of the “postmodern” culture: college students in the US. We will also [...]
The top 25 Islamic peoples
Nearly half the world’s Muslim are found in just 25 ethnic groups, each with more than 10 million members.
The challenge of population growth
There are two population factors which directly impact Christian mission: population size, and population growth. We all know that the large countries represent particular challenges to Christian missions simply because of the vast number of people to be evangelized. However, this challenge is less than might appear at the onset. The top 20 countries, for [...]
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