We are in the midst of something of a baby boomlet of demography books. Fans of population science can read the recently published Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (2019) and ...

Later this year—any day now really—the global population is projected to cross eight billion people. The United Nations recently pegged the date as Nov. 15, but we don’t know with any exact precision.

What if the challenge for humanity's future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs? Most people on Earth today live in a country ...

In 1980, one in 10 people on this earth were African; today, it is one in six. By 2050, the continent is expected to have 2.5 billion people – more than a quarter of the world’s total; by the end of ...

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Although the “population problem” in India was discussed among British officials and Indian leaders in the pre-Independence period, especially since 1931, an urgent need to address what was seen as ...

Between 1951 and 2011 Census, a net increase in the Muslim population in India was 13.6 crore. That of Hindus was 67.6 crore The fertility rate, the number of children a woman would have in her ...