#POPULATION

John O'Brien

jlpobrien

Ireland has the highest share of population aged under 29 in the EU. Italy the lowest. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Being_young_in_Europe_today_-_demographic_trends#Europe.E2.80.99s_demographic_challeng

Imran Khan

DataKahani

A bar graph race chart also shows a sudden increase in Sindh's capacity as the gap has widened since 2015, Punjab is especially lagging, while KP and Balochistan are inching

Tate Reeves

tatereeves

Let’s talk about herd immunity. I’ve listened to some people argue that the rapid spread of cases is a good thing, and we need to reach herd immunity in Mississippi

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

And now for something almost completely different: Max Roser has a beautiful post about the Black Death. And no, that's not a contradiction 1/https://ourworldindata.org/breaking-the-malthusian-trap Roser points out and documents somethi

Ankur Sharma

AnkurSharma_Adv

@BJP4JnK Declares All Out War Against Jammu.Despite @IkkJutt_Jammu expose on Fraud 2011 Census, “Delimitation Exercise initiated to redraw Constituencies in J&K”Result: Jammu becomes a Voluntary Slave to Fundamentalist Kashmiri Isla

Paul

paul_btc

numbers validate a high R0 at >4 and a lower than "hyped" asymptomatic case numberso I estimate "natural" herd immunity likely in the range of 75-85%https://twitter.com/jseims/status/1253530412736892928 High R0 makes for

Tanya Mendis

tanyamendis

More sobering stats from the health director. 50% of the Coronavirus deaths in Mecklenburg County are in the African American community. For context: blacks make up 22% of the population.

Eagle Eye

SortedEagle

How many lives the 4 lockdowns saved in India? According to data released by Niti Aayog on Friday, the first two phases (March 25-April 14 & April 15-May 3) of

Darin Larson

DarinLarson8

Trump knows his only path to re-election is massive vote suppression. The only mechanism with enough power to cause enough vote suppression to achieve his goal is the Coronavirus. Florida

Abby

AbbyCScience

Three guesses as to where these scientists think “population control” efforts ought to be concentratedhttps://twitter.com/business/status/1200078223037673472 Wild to spend the afternoon reading about British “management” of famines in India from 1876

Krishna Kumar Murugan

ikkmurugan

To all those who are comparing India and Bangladesh basis of per capita GDP: Some facts for you 1. As per 2001 census, 3.1 Million Bangladesh immigrants reside in India

Mixed Signals

mentalplex

We've talked about this before, but the Rt estimated for Arizona by the generative algorithm on http://rt.live does not pass the sanity test right now. You may already know the

Timesh Pillay

timeshpillay

As a doctor following the Cummings scandal, I understand the anger it has caused for all sorts of reasons. But the true harm of his rule-breaking has been fully spelled

Maestro Rayo

maestro_rayo

The Swedish Strategy can be summed up as: protect the vulnerable, let non-vulnerable to socialize by keeping schools, restaurants and bars open. 1/13.https://twitter.com/federicolois/status/1298631595339980806 This makes sense. We know sinc

Ingrid M

iMusing

1. geography: large island, small population, massive oceans between us and other continents.2. polity. Incredibly compliant population, including under heavy handed policing.3. internal borders. States that can and did close,

Baldilocks

Baldilocks__

Whenever someone makes a thread on why that agbo from Madagascar should go thru proper drug testing b4 public use, pple r always quick to label them anti-african.They're quick to