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  You will find more infographics at Statista Flags of the World (2000) Japan, Italy, (2020) Russian, China Germany, Spain Statista: When Populations Peak As today marks  World Population Day , we’re taking a closer at one of the population trends that will affect many countries sooner or later in the 21 st  century: population decline. Especially prevalent across Europe and developed Asia, this demographic trend is a consequence of  declining birth rates  and ageing populations and poses significant challenges to the countries affected. In countries like Japan and Italy, where population decline has begun in 2011 and 2015, respectively, fertility rates have long fallen below the replacement level of 2.1 percent, influenced by factors such as higher education and career opportunities for women, shifts in societal norms regarding family and childbearing and an  ageing overall population . Countries with declining populations face a number of challenges, both economic and social. Econom

  Land Squeeze: International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Future Overview and Summary by Statista You will find more infographics at Statista Statista: The Global Land Squeese Smallholder farmers and communities around the world are experiencing a phenomenon called “land squeeze”, which is exacerbating persistent rural poverty and land inequality. This is the result of a number of pressures, including the consolidation of big farms, which means that as they are getting bigger, many smallholder farmers are left with increasingly fragmented, smaller plots of land. In Asia, overall land inequality has risen by as much as 11 percent since 1980. And on a global scale, land consolidation means 1 percent of the world's largest farms now control 70 percent of all farmland. These are just some of the findings detailed in the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems’ new report titled Land Squeeze, published Tuesday. The following chart provides a brief overvie

Global Wealth Growth Has Cooled   Global wealth growth has slowed in the past decade compared to the one before, according to the UBS Global Wealth Report 2024, published today. Where the average annual growth was 7 percent between 2000 and 2010, it cooled to just over 4.5 percent between 2010 and 2023. As the following chart shows, wealth growth is far from uniform. In Mainland China and India, average annual wealth development has more than halved since 2010. It’s a similar story in Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and Australia, where annual wealth growth has dropped by over two-thirds. While none of the 56 markets analyzed by UBS experienced negative growth in average annual wealth between 2000-2010, four markets did during the second decade - Greece, Japan, Italy and Spain. According to the report, the demographic changes of shrinking populations and aging societies likely played a role in reducing the level of economic activity in cases such as Japan and Italy. You will find m

  Where Billionaire Wealth is Concentrated The combined wealth of the top five richest men has more than doubled since 2020, increasing from $405 billion to $869 billion. In that time frame, almost five billion people have seen their wealth decrease. This is according to Oxfam’s Inequality Inc. report, released to coincide with the kick off of the Davos summit, an annual meeting of the business and political elite. As the following chart shows, only 20 percent of the world’s population lives in the Global North. Despite this, nearly 70 percent of all private wealth, and 74 percent of the world's billionaire wealth, is concentrated there. The five richest billionaires today, according to Forbes, are LVMH chief Bernard Arnault, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, investor Warren Buffet, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. You will find more infographics at Statista According to the report, as many as seven in ten of the world’s biggest companies are run by a billionaire, or

  Inequality Growth and Decline The Global Wealth Report 2024 was released today by the Swiss bank UBS, highlighting where wealth inequalities have grown the furthest. South Africa comes top of the list, scoring 82 out of 100 on the inequality index, where 0 indicates total equality and 100 indicates absolute inequality. This is a jump of 17.7 percent since 2008. Other countries with particularly high scores were Brazil (81), the United Arab Emirates (77), Saudi Arabia (77) and Sweden (77). Even Japan, which at 54 scored the lowest figure of the markets analyzed, is still far from equal. You will find more infographics at Statista

The Roman Catholic Diocese of the Cleveland is restructuring itself along the lines of deaneries as provided by the Code of Canon Law (553-555).  Decree Establishing Deaneries and Office of Dean From the bishop's cover letter "For many years, we have been served by a district structure that allowed for a healthy participative framework for developing new initiatives and sharing resources among our parishes...However, over time, it has become apparent that an update has become necessary.  The cultural landscape we are privileged to minister in has changed dramatically over the  past several decades. We face many challenges. In this new structure, I reinstate the Office of Dean and designate our parishes to be members of one of twelve Deaneries across the diocese. These twelve Deans will be a source of accountability in matters of parish governance, but also a focal point of care for their brother priests and deacons. Additionally, the Deans will call together a Deanery Committe