China is AgingXinhua News ServiceAugust 26, 1999 HANGZHOU: East China’s Zhejiang Province, one of the country’s economic powerhouses, will take a series of measures to… Read More »Population Research – Xinhua News Service
1999 Population Aging Wall ChartUnited NationsPopulation DivisionDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs With the continuation of fertility decline and increase in life expectancy, the population… Read More »Population Research – United Nations Population Division
The Church of MalthusWall Street Journal Now, we are all for letting people decide for themselves how many children they want to have, and our… Read More »Population Research – The Wall Street Journal
1998 Revision of World Population Estimates and ProjectionsUnited NationsPopulation DivisionDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs This October 1998 document contained information on the world population… Read More »Population Research – United Nations Population Division
Health Care 2020: The Coming Collapse of Employer-Provided Health CareWilliam Styring, IIISenior FellowHudson Institute A lot of people are kind of vaguely aware that we’re… Read More »Population Research – William Styring, III
Antonia Senior’s recent opinion piece in the Times entitled “Yes, abortion is killing. But it’s the lesser evil” has been analyzed by pro-life writers Dave Andrusko and Albert Mohler, who are both disturbed by her statement “If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too.”
Definition of Abortion Is Found to Vary AbroadPeter T. KilbornThe New York Times Officially, Bangladesh prohibits abortion except to save a mother’s life. But the… Read More »Population Research – Peter T. Kilborn
Global GreyingToni Horst, Ph.D.Specialist in regional economics and demographics One implication of the growing elderly share of the population is that fewer workers will be… Read More »Population Research – Toni Horst, Ph.D.
Counting DownFred PearceNew Scientist Magazine Only 12 years have passed since we hit the 5-billion mark, so the event has been greeted with portentous warnings… Read More »Population Research – Fred Pearce
Six Billion People? Three Cheers!Frank FurediAuthor of Population and Development: A Critical Introduction The traditional argument of the population lobby, for example, was that controlling numbers… Read More »Population Research – Frank Furedi
Sea Water to DrinkRoberta FriedmanTechnology Review, August/September 1989 As drought continues to threaten may regions, seawater is becoming a reasonable solution to the dearth of… Read More »Population Research – Roberta Friedman
The World Population CrisisNicholas EberstadtFormer research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation “With respect to fertility, there are issues attendant to the sub-replacement fertility levels that… Read More »Population Research – Nicholas Eberstadt