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- Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description
- What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U. S.
The bureau’s notice impacts our unauthorized immigrant estimates for 2022 The estimates shown in this blog post are lower than the bureau’s new estimates We are working to update our 2022 estimates and are producing new 2023 estimates consistent with the Census Bureau’s new estimates
- What are the sources for Our World in Datas population . . .
Whenever estimates by Maddison were available, his figures are being followed in favor of estimates by Gapminder; For Africa, estimates by Frankema and Jerven (2014) for the period 1850-1960 have been added to the existing database; For Latin America, estimates by Abad Van Zanden (2014) for the period 1500-1940 have been added
- Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect . . .
We estimate that each morphology-based insect species contains (on average) 3 1 cryptic species We then use these estimates to project the overall number of species on Earth and their distribution among major groups Our estimates suggest that overall global biodiversity may range from 563 million to 2 2 billion species
- Child labour rises to 160 million – first increase in two decades
The agriculture sector accounts for 70 per cent of children in child labour (112 million) followed by 20 per cent in services (31 4 million) and 10 per cent in industry (16 5 million) Nearly 28 per cent of children aged 5 to 11 years and 35 per cent of children aged 12 to 14 years in child labour are out of school
- Feeding 9 Billion | National Geographic
Step Four: Shift Diets It would be far easier to feed nine billion people by 2050 if more of the crops we grew ended up in human stomachs Today only 55 percent of the world’s crop calories
- The Water Crisis: Shortage, Problems Solutions | Water. org
World Health Organization (2019) Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene World Health Organization, UNICEF, and World Bank (2022) State of the world’s drinking water: an urgent call to action to accelerate progress on ensuring safe drinking water for all WaterAid (2021)
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