Italy is the latest in a line of countries with ageing populations trying to boost proceation through a ‘fertility day’.
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Superannuation, health and child care are among the issues that are likely to matter most to voters in the bellwether NSW seats of Eden-Monaro, Robertson and Lindsay.
Some scenarios put the UK population at just under 80m by 2039. Here are the facts.
Incentives to encourage childbearing haven’t worked elsewhere in Asia – can they in China?
Worries about overpopulation aren’t being felt everywhere.
Indonesia has a large young workforce. But this can be a problem if they can’t find jobs.
Could developed countries’ ageing populations help clean up the climate? New research suggests that a 1% increase in the proportion of over-65s delivers a 1.5% cut in carbon dioxide emissions.
How appropriate were the fourth Intergenerational Report’s demographic assumptions? Should greater attention be paid to the potential consequences of population growth?
The problem with Australia’s population ageing is not that there are too many older people – it’s that there are not enough young people to support them. That presents many challenges to Australia’s continued…
Demography is destiny. It’s an old idea but it remains as true as ever, despite the fact that it doesn’t get anything like the attention it deserves. It’s not hard to see why: not only is there a crowded…
Men who leave school or university during a recession experience better health in later life than those who graduate during a boom, while women experience worse health if leaving school or university during…
In a recent article in The Conversation, Stewart Riddle cited UK, US and Australian research to argue that: … social class is the strongest predictor of educational achievement. But recent research shows…
“Same sex couples earn 29% more money than male-female couples. Mum and Dad taxpayers are the most oppressed Australians in our economy. Christian Democrats will change that.” – Fred Nile - Official Christian…
In September 2008 the sudden collapse of the investment banking sector in the US would propel much of the world - especially Western economies - into the worst economic recession since the Great Depression…
One of the sharpest divides in attitudes to Australia Day celebrations is between those who think of Australia as a nation of migrants and those who regard Australians as a unique people and culture. For…
Carbon tax or not, Australia’s emissions will keep rising, driven by rapid rates of population growth and increasing affluence. Most of the carbon is domestic but we also own the carbon that China and…
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Demography, University of Cape Town
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Demography, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Professor of Demography, University of Ibadan
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN); Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)