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 ...

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 ...

The rise of youth-led political movements in the Global South point to structural inequalities in the global system.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forces of change seem to come in one of two varieties: bumps and grinds. Bumps are generally eventa contained in the short term that produce profound effects. Think about 9/11 or an earthquake. Grinds ...

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 ...

The Bank for International Settlements, the BIS, just released a 47-page report on the impact of changing global demographics, and if their predictions are correct, it will mean higher interest rates ...