Governments have adopted various family planning and population control policies, often with totally different results. See what what worked and what didn’t.
Populations wax and wane for various reasons, but mothers determine whether birth rates rise or fall. What makes them choose to have children?
By 2050 the world’s population will have grown by another 3.5 billion, the same number as lived on the entire planet in 1950. Can a depleted planet support population growth? We look at both sides of the debate.
While many European populations are set to drop significantly by 2050, the population of the United States is expected to grow. We asked demographer Carl Haub why the population forecasts for two highly developed regions are so different.
Over 2.6 billion people do not have adequate toilets, sewers, or latrines. This is blocking up progress on other development goals, including education, gender equality, and public health.
Jack Sim, Ashoka fellow and founder of the Singapore-based World Toilet Organization, says a market-based approach is the key to providing sanitation to under-served communities in the developing world.
Stocks and markets fluctuate constantly, but demographic fund managers think decades ahead. Christian Schneider, portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors, talks about the economic force of demographics.
HIV/AIDS has hit southern Africa harder than any other region in the world. How will this epidemic affect the coming generations and the demographic development of entire nations?
None of the troubling predictions about overpopulation and global starvation have come to pass. So should we still be worried about too many people on Earth?
