Global Scans · Demographics · Weekly Summary

• [New] Grappling with closing health gaps, finding ways to mitigate the impact of global environmental climate change, and identifying ways to turn population ageing and urbanization from problems to opportunities, to name just a few, are all in the fundamental wheelhouse of public health. PubMed Central (PMC)
• [New] Bangkok dominates the risk profile, driven by population density, transport infrastructure complexity, and incident frequency including the pub fire and transit disruptions. GeoBit AI
• [New] India's infrastructure push under its National Infrastructure Pipeline and China's ongoing urbanization drive targeting a 70% urban population share by 2035 continue to translate into strong and sustained sand demand. Claight Corporation (Expert Market Research)
• [New] Domestically, an ageing and shrinking population will weigh on sales in the coming years. atradius
• [New] The combination of attrition due to burnout, retirement, and more flexible or lucrative careers, with an inadequate number of people in the health workforce pipeline threaten the United States' ability to care for its population now and into the future. West Health Mosaic
• [New] If current trends in fertility rates continue and if births keep getting postponed later and later, then population will peak in the mid-2050s and then go into relatively rapid decline. Institute for Family Studies
• [New] Global disasters might kill a lot of us, depressing the total population even further. Bryan Alexander
• [New] By 2040, more than 25% of the population in both the EU and China will be over 65, whereas the US sits around 22%. Implement
• [New] India, which has a population of 1.4 billion people and a growing middle class, wants to install 100 gigawatts of nuclear power by 2047 - enough to power nearly 60 million Indian homes a year. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [New] The U.S. population is older than ever before, with 82 million Americans projected to be age 65+ by 2050. Eventbrite
• [New] Global population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, adding more than 2 billion people to a planetary surface where freshwater scarcity is already widespread. Forbes
• [New] The projected five billion liter daily gap by 2055 is the product of two converging pressures: rising demand from a growing population, and reduced reliability of supply driven by climate change. Water Industry Hub
• [New] Japan's working population is set to shrink by over 11 million people by then, and there will not be enough workers to keep factories and infrastructure running. LinkedIn
• [New] Prolonged dry spells, flooding, persistently high staple food prices, declining household purchasing power, and limited income opportunities are driving around 10% of the analysed population in rural districts of mainland Tanzania into high levels of acute food insecurity. Food Security Portal
• [New] The ageing global population drives demand for orthopedic interventions, with the World Health Organization projecting that musculoskeletal conditions will affect 1.7 billion people by 2030. Market Data Forecast
• [New] The population aged 65 and over in the European Union is expected to reach 29.4% of the total population by 2050, significantly expanding the demographic requiring chronic cancer management. Market Data Forecast
• [New] Population growth - especially the expansion of the world's middle class, which could number more than 5 billion in 2030 - is inducing an exponential increase in consumption and pollution so high that it has become a threat to public health worldwide. AXA.com
• [New] Given the aging population, the importance of hypertension management in Asian populations is expected to increase. PubMed Central (PMC)
• [New] Australia's population is forecast to grow from around 27.8 million today to over 30 million by 2030, meaning over two million more people will need somewhere to live. Property Update
• [New] Asia-Pacific will have the highest CAGR, of approximately 16.5%, driven by large unmet mental health needs across dense population bases. P&S Intelligence
• [New] Urban growth will be concentrated in just seven countries that already account for one third of the world's population: Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and Pakistan are projected to add more than 500 million urban residents by 2050. United Nations Western Europe

Last updated: 19 July 2026