Demography

and population

In the News

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individual countries and regions
ecology
economics
ethics
values

Demography -- Wikipedia

In the News . . .

• Migration could be ‘dissolving force for EU’, says bloc’s top diplomat -- The Guardian (22 September 2023)
  
  
• Pope Francis decries ‘fanaticism of indifference’ over migration -- The Guardian (22 September 2023)
  
  
• Ancient DNA reveals the earliest evidence of the last massive human migration to Western Europe -- The Conversation (19 July 2023)
  
  
• Collapse of Dutch Government Highlights Europe’s New Migration Politics -- The New York Times (08 July 2023)
  
  
• EU states refusing to host migrants may have to pay up to €20,000 a head -- The Guardian (07 June 2023)
  
  
• ‘Vanishing like glaciers’: plunging birthrate threatens Italian schools -- The Guardian (01 May 2023)
  
  
• Japan's Shrinking Population Faces Point of No Return -- Newsweek (30 April 2023)
  
  
• The five countries emigrating families love [Japan, Estonia, Spain, Finland, and Netherlands] -- BBCTravel (08 February 2023)
  
  
• UN projects world population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15 -- AP (11 July 2022)
  
  
• British ‘baby shortage’ could lead to economic decline, says thinktank -- The Guardian (20 September 2021)
  
  
• China announced that it would allow all families to have three children, ending a two-child policy that failed to boost declining birthrates -- The New York Times (01 June 2021)
  
  
• China’s ‘Long-Term Time Bomb’: Falling Births Stunt Population Growth -- The New York Times (31 May 2021)
  
  
• China: The men who are single and the women who don't want kids -- BBCNews (25 May 2021)
  
  
• Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications -- The New York Times (24 May 2021)
  
  
• How do you convince people to have babies? -- BBCNews (16 May 2021)
  
  
• Are there too many people? All bets are off -- The Guardian (08 May 2021)
  
  
• A Population Bust -- The New York Times (05 May 2021)
  
  
• US birth rate sees biggest fall for nearly 50 years -- The Guardian (04 May 2021)
  
  
• Experts sound the alarm on declining birth rates among younger generations: "It's a crisis" -- CBS News (03 March 2021)
  
  
• The COVID baby boom is looking more like a baby bust -- CBS News (03 March 2021)
  
  
• Europe’s 'baby bust': can paying for pregnancies save Greece? (14:54, 2021) -- The Guardian (09 February 2021)
  
  
• Why a generation is choosing to be child-free -- The Guardian (25 July 2020)
  
  
• Pressure to procreate: inside Hungary’s baby drive (15:42, 2021) -- The Guardian (09 March 2020)
  
  
• Air pollutants and population density increase childhood obesity risk – study -- The Guardian (24 July 2020)
  
  
• Compulsory romance lessons among proposals at China's political conference -- The Guardian (09 March 2020)
  
  
• 'It's national preservation': Greece offers baby bonus to boost birthrate -- The Guardian (04 February 2020)
  
  
• What happens when we're too old to be 'useful'? [Can we afford to pay pensions, given the huge demographic challenge of our ageing population?] -- BBCNews (22 January 2020)
  
  
• Viktor Orbán trumpets Hungary's 'procreation, not immigration' policy -- The Guardian (06 September 2019)
  
  
• Japan shrinking as birthrate falls to lowest level in history -- The Guardian (27 December 2018)
  
  
• Mann, Charles C. "The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation." Smithsonian Magazine, January/February, 2018.
  
  
• Why millions of Chinese men are staying single -- BBCcapital (14 February 2017)
  
  
• Research Team Uses Climate Data to Uncover New Clues about Human Migration -- The Scout Report, July 31, 2015 -- Volume 22, Number 43.
  
  
• Spreading Seeds by Human Migration -- EurekAlert (13 April 2016)
  
  
• Population size fails to explain evolution of complex culture -- Phys.org (05 April 2016)
  
  
• How many people can our planet really support? -- BBCearth (14 March 2016)
  
  
• Moving Matters: Ethnocentric Behavior Decreases When Societal Mobility Rises -- EurekAlert (08 December 2015)
  
  
• An Anthropologist Unravels the Mysteries of Mexican Migration -- National Geographic News (06 December 2015)
  
  
• China's New Birth Rule Can't Restore Missing Women and Fix a Population -- Scientific American (02 November 2015)
  
  
• China Says It Will End One-Child Policy -- Smithsonian (29 October 2015)
  
  
• The Racial Dot Map -- Dustin Cable, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia
  
  
• Human Life Span Took Huge Jump in Past Century -- Live Science (15 October 2012)
  
  
• "Seventy-two Is the New 30": Why Are We Living So Much Longer? -- National Geographic News (16 October 2012)
  
  
• The Dead Outnumber the Living (Infographic) -- Live Science (07 February 2012)
  
  See also BBC News Science and Environment

• American Migration -- Forbes
  
  
• Autosomal Resequence Data Reveal Late Stone Age Signals of Population Expansion in Sub-Saharan African Foraging and Farming Populations -- PLoS ONE (28 July 2009)
  
  
• Be A Demographer -- NOVA
  
  
• Breastfeeding Saved Babies in 19th Century Montreal -- ScienceDaily (20 December 2011)
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Craig, J. " Replacement level fertility and future population growth". PubMed, Winter 1994;(78):20-2.
  
  
• Demographic Statistics -- UNdata
  
  
• Few Grandparents Until 30,000 Years Ago -- Telegraph (20 July 2011)
  
  
• Global Footprint Network
  
  
• Global Population Reaches 7 Billion: Can We Really Feed the World? -- Telegraph (25 October 2011)
  
  
• The Great American Migration Slowdown: Regional and Metropolitan Dimensions -- William H. Frey, Brookings Institution
  
  
• How Do You Count 7 Billion People? -- LiveScience (19 August 2011)
  
  
• Human Numbers Through Time -- World in the Balance, NOVA
  
  
• Human Population Expanded During Late Stone Age -- ScienceDaily (28 July 2009)
  
  
• OECD Factbook eXplorer -- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  
  
• Pimentel, David and Marcia Pimentel. Food, Energy, and Society, Third Edition. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2008.
  
  
• Population -- United Nations Global Issues
  
  
• Population: Europe's Problems Will Grow As It Shrinks -- New Scientist (29 July 2009)
  
  
• Population Pyramids -- PopulationPyramid.net
  
  
• Roman-era babies killed at birth — but why? -- MSNBC (13 September 2011)
  
  
• Seven Billion Humans: Technology Has Saved Us Before, and Can Do So Again -- Telegraph 31 October 2011)
  
  
• State of World Population 2008 -- United Nations Population Fund
  
  

• The State of the World's Refugees 2006 -- UNHCR
  
  
• UNdata
  
  
• Urban Population Explosion -- Live Science (13 September 2011)
  
  
• United States Census Bureau
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• US Census: Hispanics outnumber blacks in metro areas -- BBCNews (14 April 2011)
  
  
• The Global Flow of People -- Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel & Ramon Bauer, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
  
  
• The World at Seven Billion -- BBC News (25 October 2011)
  • The World at Seven Billion: What's Your Number? -- BBC News (26 October 2011)
    
    
• World Population: A National Geographic Tour -- Wired (31 October 2011)
  
  
• World Population Not Only Grows, But Grows Old -- Washington Post (30 October 2011)
  
  
• World Population Prospects -- UNdata
  
  
• Yearbook of the United Nations