1 If it doesn't work on him/her, you'll just have to deal with your grade and go with the flow. 2  If your grade is already good (i.e. an A instead of an A+), a teacher may be reluctant to raise it. 3  Think about whether or not you actually need your grade raised.
After years, if not decades, of warnings about Japan's aging population and its low birth rate, the day is here. Japan's official census shows that the country's population has shrunk. And not by an inconsiderable amount either: The 2010 census showed a population of 128,057,352, but the 2015 figure, released Friday, shows just 127,110,000. Japan's population had shrunk by almost 1 million people in five years.
With more than 1.3 billion people (1,336,718,015 as of mid-2011), China is the world's most populous country. As the world's population is approximately 6.7 billion, China represents a full 20% of the world's population so one in every five people on the planet is a resident of China. China's population growth has been somewhat slowed by the one-child policy, in effect since 1979. As recently as 1950, China's population was a mere 563 million. The population grew dramatically through the following decades to one billion in the early 1980s. China's total fertility rate is 1.7, which means that, on average, each woman gives birth to 1.7 children throughout her life.