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UN: world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100

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births per woman, on average, over a lifetime in sub-Saharan Africa (4.6), Oceania excluding Australia/New Zealand (3.4), Northern Africa and Western Asia (2.9), and Central and Southern Asia (2.4). (A The global fertility rate, which fell from 3.2 births per woman in 1990 to 2.5 in 2019, is projected to decline further to 2.2

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U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

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Six years later, he established Microsoft Research Asia , the company’s largest basic and applied computer-research institute outside the United States. In 2012, Zhang Yiming , a Microsoft Research Asia alum , founded the video-sharing platform’s parent company, ByteDance , which today is one of the world’s most successful AI companies.

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