In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information POPULATION, a bimonthly journal (five or six issues a year), published in French since 1946, features original studies in the field ...

Sub-Saharan Africa could reap significant benefits from its growing population—if the transition is well managed Sub-Saharan Africa’s most formidable economic asset could soon be its people. As the ...

A new World Bank report notes that the slow decline of fertility rates in Africa will likely result in a rapidly growing population of youth, with the region becoming a much larger part of the world ...

In 1994, widespread concern over population growth brought world leaders together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Today, however, ...

China’s population of 1.4 billion people is the largest in the world, right? Not anymore. In 2023 India surpassed China as the most populous country. China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and ...