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By 2100, China’s population will likely be half its current size. It will also be a lot older, with fewer working-age men and women.
Most of the problems confronting the world come down to population growth. But where women are given the choice, they limit the number of children they have.
China’s birth rate hit a record low in 2022.
As living standards rise, we could see smaller populations but much bigger ecological impacts.
Stricter population controls in India could have disastrous consequences for women and minority communities.
Hot, humid population centers are becoming epicenters of heat risk as climate changes worsens. It’s calling into question the conventional wisdom that urbanization uniformly reduces poverty.
As the world’s population grows, agriculture and related industries will grow in size and importance in Canada. Smart investors should bet on Canadian farmland.
To be clear, I’m not advocating compulsory population control, here or anywhere. But we do need to consider a future with billions more people, many of them aspiring to live as Australians do now.
There are plenty other good reasons to stabilise the global population.
Many of the world’s greatest photographers focus on our shared human experience in a milestone exhibition.
Increasing usage of big data by statistical agencies and other organisations may reduce the ability of populations to have a say in how they are governed.
By the end of this century the world’s population will have increased by half, creating a housing problem that needs to be solved now.
Melbourne is Australia’s most rapidly growing city, a title it wrested from Perth around 2013-14. Several of Australia’s big cities are growing well above the national average population growth rate.
Despite increased global awareness about poor conditions in slums, the health of their inhabitants is a little studied phenomenon.
Each new human on the planet makes extinctions more likely, yet birth control still isn’t seen as a big environmental issue.
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…
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Environmental Social Scientist, Newcastle University
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Professor of Future Construction, University of Edinburgh
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Researcher in Conservation Decision Science and Land Use, University of Oxford
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Head of Urbanisation and Wellbeing, African Population and Health Research Center, African Population and Health Research Center
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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