Tag: Demography
Why China’s shrinking population is a big deal – counting the...
Feng Wang, University of California, Irvine
Throughout much of recorded human history, China has boasted the largest population in...
US birth rates are at record lows – even though the...
Sarah Hayford, The Ohio State University and Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Birth rates...
Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long...
Sharon DeWitte, University of South Carolina
Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about...
The maximum human life span will likely increase this century, but...
Michael Pearce, University of Washington and Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997...
The US birth rate keeps declining: 4 questions answered
Marie Menke, University of Pittsburgh
Over the last few decades, birth rates have decreased across the globe.
The United States is no exception. Aside from a...
Counting 11 million undocumented immigrants is easier than Trump thinks
Jennifer Van Hook, Pennsylvania State University
It is now clear that there will be no question about citizenship on the 2020 U.S. Census.
After the Supreme...
Why fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced
Tera R. Jordan, Iowa State University
Fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced, with the rates falling 18% between 2008 and 2016.
Among American adults, there...
Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart
Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University
What happens to a country when its core national identity – its preferred image of itself in terms of race...
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Seven charts that show the world is actually becoming a better...
Julius Probst, Lund University
Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea that...
