Editing Social change (section)

== Current examples ==
=== Global demographic shifts ===
{{Main|Demographics of the world}}

One of the most obvious changes currently occurring is the change in the relative global population distribution between countries. In recent decades, developing countries have become a larger proportion of the world population, increasing from 68% in 1950 to 82% in 2010, and the population of the developed countries has declined from 32% of the total world population in 1950 to 18% in 2010. [[China]] and [[India]] continue to be the largest countries, followed by the US as a distant third.

However, population growth throughout the world is slowing. Population growth among developed countries has been slowing since the 1950s and is now at 0.3% annual growth. Population growth among the less developed countries excluding the least developed ones has also been slowing since 1960 and is now at 1.3% annually. Population growth among the [[least developed countries]] has slowed relatively little; as of 2022, the annual growth rate is 2.33%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPPOPGROWLDC|title=Population Growth for Least Developed Countries|publisher=[[Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]]|date=2022|access-date=30 July 2023}}</ref>

=== Gendered patterns of work and care ===
In much of the [[developed world]], changes from distinct men's work and [[women's work]] to more gender equal patterns have been economically important since the mid-20th century. Both men and women are considered to be great contributors<ref>[[Albert Bandura|Bandura, A.]] & [[National Institute of Mental Health|National Inst. of Mental Health]] (1986). Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory. Prentice-Hall, Inc., p. 118.</ref> to social change worldwide.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Bjørnholt | first1 = M. | author-link1= Margunn Bjørnholt | year =2014 | title = Changing men, changing times; fathers and sons from an experimental gender equality study | url = http://www.margunnbjornholt.no/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Changing-men-changing-times-fathers-and-sons-from-an-experimental-gender-equality-study.pdf | journal = [[The Sociological Review]] | volume = 62 | issue = 2  | pages = 295–315 | doi = 10.1111/1467-954X.12156| s2cid = 143048732 }}</ref>