China's population will reach 1.557 billion in 2043 and after that the country will approach a zero population growth rate, and the problems of newborn sex disproportion and population aging should ...

AN International Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems will be held in Berlin on August 26-Sept. 1 next. Arrangements for the Congress are being made by the International ...

MANKIND has the technical ability to reduce the toll of sickness and poverty throughout the world to an extent never dreamed of even a few decades ago. Yet we teeter on the brink of self-destruction ...

My last post described the weaknesses implicit in China’s centralized approach to economic direction. This post takes up a bigger problem. A central planning mistake from years ago and continued for ...

The Population Institute, a global nonprofit that promotes access to family planning education and services, has just released a report ranking countries that will become most vulnerable because of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract All data obtained from vital statistics and the fertility survey indicate that the population of Japan will have a heavy burden of increasing ...

THAT population size and composition exert a profound influence on many of the social, political and economic problems which beset a nation, and that it will be possible to make a fairly accurate ...

Colin D. Butler received funding from the Australian Reseach Council from 2011 to 2015. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee for Doctors for the Environment, Australia In all the talk ...

EUROPE, where the so-called population explosion got under way in the 18th century, is once again playing a pioneering role in demographic development. The continent has the lowest fertility rate and ...

The departure of Michigan’s first chief growth officer two years brings a coda to a very loud discussion of the state’s declining population, and brings a message that marketing, for all its powers, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A lot of attention was paid to ...

The population of bugs in a Petri dish typically increases in an S-shaped curve. To start with, the line is flat because the colony is barely growing. Then the slope rises ever more steeply as ...