Contemporary world population patterns are shaped by the “demographic transition” concept introduced to the field by the great demographer Frank Notestein several generations ago. That schema offers a ...

As birth rates decline and populations age in many developed nations, the world is approaching an unprecedented demographic ...

COVID-19 isn’t just changing the way college students attend class, it’s changing what they’re studying. Case in point: a new course at the University of Texas at San Antonio is using the pandemic as ...

Changes in demography will reverse decades of trends: declining growth in wages and inflation, falling interest rates, and greater inequality between countries, while inequality is falling in many ...

The world is facing a fertility rate crisis, and experts warn that giving financial incentives to would-be parents isn't going to come close to solving it. A Lancet study forecasts that by 2100, over ...

Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, Vol. 37, No. 1, Our World Growing Older: A Look at Global Aging (Spring 2013), pp. 12-18 (7 pages) Population aging is global; it is occurring ...

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020 file photo, people crowd a street a few hours ahead of curfew in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File) (CN) — The coming century will see simultaneous ...

The global sustainable development project as currently conceived is foundering, and the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War have driven a stake through its heart. Some of ...