Demography is a slow-moving train, and based on past and current trends, population science can somewhat predict the future.

Demographer Jennifer Sciubba joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about population and demographics. What is demography? What perspective can demographics provide about populations and ...

The world's population is still growing, yet beneath these global statistics lies a different reality for dozens of countries. While regions like sub-Saharan Africa face booming populations, several ...

For the U.S. workforce, workplaces, and consumer markets, the implications are far-ranging. Most immediately, and ...

Among America’s various troubling addictions, one that has particularly worrisome consequences for the country is its addiction to population growth. Population growth advocates warn of a pending ...

In 1994, widespread concern over population growth brought world leaders together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Today, however, ...

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In this paper we examine just one of the many cases of the exponential power of demography at work on the global stage today. This is the manner in which the fate of East Asia stands to be recast in ...

BACKGROUND Previous kinship models analyze female kin through female lines of descent, neglecting male kin and male lines of descent. Because males and females differ in mortality and fertility, ...

South Korea's demographic collapse is beginning to hit higher education, as falling student numbers put dozens of universities at risk of closure.