A clock which updates every minute to produce an estimated population total for Northern Ireland, at the current time and date

UPDATED on 21 Feb 2011: at present the Population Clock release has been deferred for further technical review.

Source agency: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Northern Ireland Population Clock

This dataset contains data used in determining the ABS Population Clock. The data is annual data updated quarterly, and is based on past component data published in Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0) or Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) forecasts. Population Clock components and results do not constitute official ABS projections and should not be used for purposes other than the Population Clock.

Niger had the highest birth rate in the world in 2024, with a birth rate of 46.6 births per 1,000 inhabitants. Angola, Benin, Mali, and Uganda followed. Except for Afghanistan, all the 20 countries with the highest birth rates in the world were located in Sub-Saharan Africa. High infant mortality The reasons behind the high birth rates in many Sub-Saharan African countries are manyfold, but a major reason is that infant mortality remains high on the continent, despite decreasing steadily over the past decades, resulting in high birth rates to counter death rates. Moreover, many nations in Sub-Saharan Africa are highly reliant on small-scale farming, meaning that more hands are of importance. Additionally, polygamy is not uncommon in the region, and having many children is often seen as a symbol of status. Fastest growing populations As the high fertility rates coincide with decreasing death rates, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have the highest population growth rates in the world. As a result, with Africa's population forecast to increase from 1.4 billion in 2022 to over 3.9 billion by 2100.

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Bayesian total-evidence dating involves the simultaneous analysis of morphological data from the fossil record and morphological and sequence data from recent organisms, and it accommodates the uncertainty in the placement of fossils while dating the phylogenetic tree. Due to the flexibility of the Bayesian approach, total-evidence dating can also incorporate additional sources of information. Here, we take advantage of this and expand the analysis to include information about fossilization and sampling processes. Our work is based on the recently described fossilized birth-death (FBD) process, which has been used to model speciation, extinction and fossilization rates that can vary over time in a piecewise manner. So far, sampling of extant and fossil taxa has been assumed to be either complete or uniformly at random, an assumption which is only valid for a minority of datasets. We therefore extend the FBD process to accommodate diversified sampling of extant taxa, which is standard practice in studies of higher-level taxa. We verify the implementation using simulations and apply it to the early radiation of Hymenoptera (wasps, ants and bees). Previous total-evidence dating analyses of this dataset were based on a simple uniform tree prior and dated the initial radiation of extant Hymenoptera to the late Carboniferous (309 Ma). The analyses using the FBD prior under diversified sampling, however, date the radiation to the Triassic and Permian (252 Ma), slightly older than the age of the oldest hymenopteran fossils. By exploring a variety of FBD model assumptions, we show that it is mainly the accommodation of diversified sampling that causes the push towards more recent divergence times. Accounting for diversified sampling thus has the potential to close the long-discussed gap between rocks and clocks. We conclude that the explicit modeling of fossilization and sampling processes can improve divergence time estimates, but only if all important model aspects, including sampling biases, are adequately addressed.

In January 2025, the Doomsday Clock was moved one second closer to midnight, to 89 seconds - this is the closest the hand has been to midnight since the clock was created in 1947. The clock is a metaphor of how close humanity is to destroying itself, with midnight representing the end of human civilization. The hand's placement originally depended on how close the world was to nuclear annihilation, taking factors such as conflict and political instability into account, however it has also included the threat of climate change since 2007. The clock's hand is set annually by members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences, and its position can move closer to or further from midnight, depending on the current state of global affairs. Reasons for the most recent move include the war in Ukraine, global pandemics, and the continued perceived inaction in the face of climate change.

This dataset is about artists. It has 6 rows and is filtered where the artworks is Clock. It features 9 columns including birth date, death date, country, and gender.

Statistics illustrates consumption, production, prices, and trade of Clock movements; complete and assembled, of alarm clocks, electrically operated in United States Minor Outlying Islands from 2007 to 2024.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of National Association Of Watch And Clock Collectors Inc

Statistics illustrates the import volume of Instrument Panel and Wall Clocks in United States Minor Outlying Islands from Jan 2019 to Jun 2025 by trade partner.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Clock And Globe Club

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Epigenetic Clock Development Corporation

I present here an in-depth, although non-exhaustive, review of two topics in molecular dating. Clock models, which describe the evolution of the rate of evolution, are considered first. Some of the shortcomings of popular approaches—uncorrelated clock models in particular—are presented and discussed. Autocorrelated models are shown to be more reasonable from a biological perspective. Some of the most recent autocorrelated models also rely on a coherent treatment of instantaneous and average substitution rates while previous models are based on implicit approximations. Second, I provide a brief overview of the processes involved in collecting and preparing fossil data. I then review the main techniques that use this data for calibrating the molecular clock. I argue that, in its current form, the fossilized birth-death process relies on assumptions about the mechanisms underlying fossilization and the data collection process that may negatively impact the date estimates. Node-dating approaches make better use of the data available, even though they rest on paleontologists' intervention to prepare raw fossil data. Altogether, this study provides indications that may help practitioners in selecting appropriate methods for molecular dating. It will also hopefully participate in defining the contour of future methodological developments in the field.

Statistics illustrates consumption, production, prices, and trade of Instrument Panel and Wall Clocks in United States Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2024.

United States Imports: 3-Digit: Watches and Clocks data was reported at 394.131 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 360.853 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Imports: 3-Digit: Watches and Clocks data is updated monthly, averaging 331.914 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to May 2018, with 269 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 562.567 USD mn in Oct 2014 and a record low of 169.751 USD mn in Feb 1997. United States Imports: 3-Digit: Watches and Clocks data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA016: Trade Statistics: SITC: Imports: Customs.

United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: Watches and Clocks data was reported at 403.737 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 369.027 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: Watches and Clocks data is updated monthly, averaging 340.436 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to May 2018, with 269 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 575.086 USD mn in Oct 2014 and a record low of 174.322 USD mn in Feb 1997. United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: Watches and Clocks data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA017: Trade Statistics: SITC: Imports: CIF.

United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: UK: Watches and Clocks data was reported at 0.707 USD mn in Sep 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.663 USD mn for Aug 2018. United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: UK: Watches and Clocks data is updated monthly, averaging 0.945 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to Sep 2018, with 273 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 32.620 USD mn in Jul 2009 and a record low of 0.198 USD mn in May 2014. United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: UK: Watches and Clocks data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.JA110: Trade Statistics: United Kingdom: Imports: CIF: SITC.

United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: BR: Watches and Clocks data was reported at 0.005 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.000 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: BR: Watches and Clocks data is updated monthly, averaging 0.006 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to May 2018, with 269 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.211 USD mn in Oct 2013 and a record low of 0.000 USD mn in Apr 2018. United States Imports: CIF: 3-Digit: BR: Watches and Clocks data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA073: Trade Statistics: Brazil: Imports: CIF: SITC.

United States Imports: 3-Digit: UK: Watches and Clocks data was reported at 1.399 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.752 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Imports: 3-Digit: UK: Watches and Clocks data is updated monthly, averaging 0.923 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to May 2018, with 269 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 30.805 USD mn in Jul 2009 and a record low of 0.189 USD mn in May 2014. United States Imports: 3-Digit: UK: Watches and Clocks data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA109: Trade Statistics: United Kingdom: Imports: Customs: SITC.

Statistics illustrates consumption, production, prices, and trade of Clock or watch parts; dials in Puerto Rico from 2007 to 2024.