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NEWS ABOUT: developed countries

developed countries stories: 4 news summaries

 Half of US Babies Will See 100 

Upward life expectancy trend shows no signs of slowing

Oct 2, 09 10:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than half of the children born today in wealthy developed countries will live to see their 100th birthday. New research coming out of Denmark also suggests life expectancy in general has increased dramatically as medicine and diagnosis of diseases afflicting the elderly have improved. Since the 1950s, the BBC... More »

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medicine • elderly • Europe • life expectancy • Denmark • lifespan • developed countries • scientific study • babies

Analysis

 Watch Out World, 
 You're Going Gray 

Aging, population decline mark next decades

Jan 4, 09 11:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Wall Street's a wreck and terrorists are clamoring for WMDs, but the world's real crisis is far worse: It's getting old, Neil Howe and Richard Jackson write in the Washington Post. By the 2020s, baby boomers will push the median age in Western Europe and Japan to near 50,... More »

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United States • aging • youth • extremism • old age • developed countries • human population • seniors • demographic trends

Poll: 72% of World Cutting Spending

Economic malaise spreads to emerging markets, hits hard

Dec 23, 08 9:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Nearly three-quarters of households worldwide are cutting spending, with emerging markets particularly fretful about global economic woes, a 22-country survey found. Those countries are facing “precipitous decline," putting “in check any notion of 'decoupling’”—the idea that emerging markets are working independently of those of... More »

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world economy • consumer confidence • consumer spending • emerging markets • developed countries • financial crisis

Climate Reps at Odds Over Deforestation

Rich countries balk at paying poorer nations to stop hacking trees

Dec 8, 07 5:37 PM CST
(Newser) - The triumph of the Bali summit may be its plan to stop deforestation, but rich and poor nations are still clashing over details, the Washington Post reports. A dozen developing countries want incentives to stop tree-cutting, but some developed nations wince at paying them for actions not taken. "The... More »

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United Nations • greenhouse gases • carbon dioxide • global warming • Kyoto Protocol • deforestation • developing countries • Bali • developed countries • tropical rain forests

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