Demography news articles

Contemporary demographic concerns include the “population explosion,” the interplay between population and economic development, the effects of birth control, urban congestion, illegal immigration, and labour force statistics.

How do demographers predict a population change?

With census results or other population counts as a baseline, demographers forecast the various ways in which the number of people will change in coming years

Beyond births and deaths, researchers also predict how many people will enter or leave a country over time

How many people are in the world today?

According to the models of the United Nations, the world’s population will reach 8 billion today — a mere 12 years since it passed 7 billion, and less than a century after the planet supported just 2 billion people

What do new population forecasts say about global population growth?

New population forecasts by Stein Vollset and colleagues 1 predict lower global population growth than do other forecasts—for instance, the one published by the UN

2 Vollset and colleagues assume relatively low fertility in the future compared with UN and other forecasts, which leads to low population growth