Tag: Demography
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...
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...
A long fuse: ‘The Population Bomb’ is still ticking 50 years...
Derek Hoff, University of Utah
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Stanford biologist and ecologist Paul Erhlich declared on the first page...
America’s graying population in 3 maps
Peter Rogerson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
The U.S. population has changed substantially in the last half century, growing by nearly...
How to put data to work in your neighborhood
Stephanie Shipp, Virginia Tech; Catherine Woteki, Iowa State University; Sallie Keller, Virginia Tech, and Sarah M. Nusser, Iowa State University
Every day, city governments collect...
Census director’s resignation could affect control of Congress after 2020
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
John H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight...