For decades, discussions around global population have largely centered on overpopulation. Yet, a quieter, more insidious ...

Following the launch of the recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on the state of the world’s population, there has been much worry that the size of Bangladesh’s population has ...

Once the demographic transition is complete, both fertility and mortality rates are very low, and most developed countries experience population ageing. In the second half of the 20th century, East ...

Significant demographic shifts are underway in much of the world. Over half of the world’s economies, accounting for two-thirds of the global population, now have fertility rates below the replacement ...

In fact, Kerala is ageing faster than the rest of the country with regard to demographic transition. The proportion of senior citizens (60 years and above) is expected to increase from 13% (2011 ...

What does this demographic transition look like in action? In the US in 1900, the average woman had 3.85 children , and 0.89 children died before age 5 (the child mortality rate was 20 percent ...

We have constructed a model of the demographic transition and its relationship to economic growth using the key indicator variables log GDP per capita, child mortality and total fertility rate.

The upshot of this rush into the demographic transition is a steady drop in global fertility and population growth. The world’s fertility rate, which stood at 3.5 births per woman in the mid ...

Among other things, this demographic and geographic transformation will play a key role in determining Kenya’s social stability, which remains fragile after the post-election violence in early 2008.

World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here ...