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Shifting Global Demographics

Adam Shaw travels to Stockholm to meet Swedish statistician Hans Rosling to discuss the fact that the number of children in the world has stopped growing.

In this episode of Horizons, Adam Shaw travels to Stockholm to meet Swedish statistician Hans Rosling. The professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute is advisor to the World Health Organisation and UNICEF. They discuss the shift in the world's population and the plans to help relieve pressure on healthcare and nursing homes caused by an ageing population.

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Thu 10 Apr 201423:30GMT
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