Forcing the younger generation to work harder to support a growing elderly population is neither efficient nor sustainable. Canada shouldn’t seek to follow in Greece’s footsteps.
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Democratic backsliding in some member states, economic instability, insecurity and climate change threaten the stability of Ecowas. Regional leaders must tackle these challenges.
Pronatalism is inextricably tied to nationalism alongside race, class and ethnicity. Such a framing can quickly become xenophobic.
The latest census figures are released this week, but the long-term trends are already clear: we will soon be more Māori and more Asian, fertility rates are dropping, and more citizens are leaving.
Older adults face greater health risks from extreme heat for several reasons, including their medications..
Fertility in Australia has dropped to the point that without migration the population will start dropping from 2037.
Australia’s latest population projection figures have just come out. This is what they show about our demographics and where the country is heading in the future.
This service is a good first step towards a one-stop shop for easy access subnational statistics to understand local areas and how they’re changing.
Birth rates are falling – but the population in England will continue to rise.
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.
Environmental policymakers and scholars must listen to sub-Saharan Africans’ voices and recognize the importance of population for achieving sustainable development goals.
In general, an ageing population puts added pressure on the working-age population to be more productive – just to maintain total output – amid growing fiscal constraints.
Deaths have exceeded births by 3 million over the past two years. China’s working-age population is set to plunge to one-fifth of its peak.
We look to politicians to provide climate change solutions, but there is only so much they can do. Beyond regulation, governments should remember the key role they play in promoting innovation.
Without policies that take account of a growing population with few working-age people, DRC risks seeing an increase in poverty and hunger.
With the right investment in health and education, Nigeria’s high population can spur economic development.
Ghana’s implementation of key population policies has not been consistent.
South Korea’s fertility rate fell below the level needed to sustain a population in the mid-1980s – and it never recovered. It is now below one child per woman during her reproductive years.
Many countries in West Africa do not have up to date census surveys.
During lockdowns renters ‘voted with removalists vans’, moving out of share houses and in with each other.
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle et conseiller de la direction de l'INED, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Data Analytics for Population Research, University of Leeds
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Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Newcastle