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The Shift in Workforce Demographics
Years ago, the pool of potential candidates from which orga-
nizations could draw was limited to the people in their local
geographic area. But today that pool of candidates is of a truly
global scope with an unprecedented composition.
Around the World
Let’s take a quick look at the bigger picture of populations and
where they reside across the planet. According to the Interna-
tional Data Base, our global population at the time of this writing
is approximately 6.8 billion.
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Where are these people? The top
five most populous countries are
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China (about 1.3 billion)
•
India ...