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All the FAQs

All the FAQs are listed here. Everything you ever wanted to know about population but didn't dare to ask.

Question 1

Are there more men or more women in the world?

Question 2

Could humans live to 150?

Question 3

How many children in France live in a reconstituted family?

Question 4

How many children in France live in a single-parent family?

Question 5

How many immigrants are there in France?

Question 6

How many mixed marriages are there in France?

Question 7

How many people have been born since the first humans lived on Earth?

Question 8

Is it true that deaths outnumber births in Europe?

Question 9

Is it true that half of all babies in France are born to unmarried parents?

Question 10

Is it true that women live longer than men?

Question 11

The world population is over 6.5 billion. According to the United Nations, this figure was reached on 19 December 2005. But can we be sure? What is the margin of error?

Question 12

What are the most widely used contraceptive methods across the world?

Question 13

What do demographers do?

Question 14

What would be the level of fertility in France if there were no immigrants?

Question 15

Why were families larger in the past than nowadays?

Question 16

Will AIDS wipe out the population of Africa?

Question 17

Will the scale of international migration increase over the coming years?

Question 18

Will there be too many humans on Earth one day?

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