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 ...

An updated edition of the September 01, 2025, article. The global population is aging at an unprecedented pace, fundamentally changing how healthcare systems, corporations and investors plan for ...

The dynamics of population change are a crucial aspect of global development, with each nation's trajectory contributing to the overall world population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, currently ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...