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 ...

A gauge of uncertainty co-developed by IMF staff illustrates this. While market measures of volatility and business surveys ...

On a special episode (first released on August 1, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Across the globe, populations are in precipitous decline. People are simply not having children at the fertility rate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. As Professor David K. Foot, demographic expert and author of Boom, Bust and Echo observed, the study of ...

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 ...