Demography

Measuring Population Trends

• With 250 babies born each minute, how many people can the Earth sustain? (The Guardian)
• Much of the modern world is explained by one population spike (Quartz)
• World Demographics Are Changing Profoundly: What Does It Mean for the 21st Century? (Truthout)

Population Statistics

• Fertility is Declining the Most Among Minority Women (Institute for Family Studies)
• US Fertility Rates Have Plummeted Into Uncharted Territory, And Nobody Knows Why (Science Alert)
• One Day Soon, The Sun Will Not Rise (Econimica)
• UN releases inconceivable new estimate of Earth's 2050 population (Inhabitat)
• America’s destiny has never been so obvious (The Washington Post)

Public Policy

• Scientists suggest fertility control as a way to combat climate change. Now that’s alarming (The Los Angeles Times)

• Too Many Men in China and India (The Washington Post)
• China’s Two-Child Policy (Bloomberg)

• China’s two-child policy has already stopped working (Quartz)
• The Geopolitics of Postmodern Parenting (Forbes)
• China ended its one-child policy and became a 'demographic time bomb' (Business Insider)

Overpopulation  

• Why you shouldn’t obsess about “overpopulation” (Vox)

Declining Fertility Countries

• Forget overpopulation. The world could soon face a population bust (The Los Angeles Times)

• US fertility is dropping. Here’s why some experts saw it coming (The Conversation)
• Drop in Teen Birthrate Helps Drive Decline in Fertility (The Wall Street Journal)
• The U.S. fertility rate just hit a historic low. Why some demographers are freaking out. (The Washington Post)
• Japan is hoping robot babies will encourage people to have real babies (Quartz)
• Japanese 'sex problem' is so bad people have given up dating (Independent)

Demographics & Aging Populations

• These countries are aging the fastest - here’s what it will mean (World Economic Forum)
  

• Aging and urban divergence (Brookings Institute)
• Japan's 'demographic time bomb' has led to the rise of drive-thru funerals (Business Insider)
• What a Study of 33 Countries Found About Aging Populations and Innovation (Harvard Business Review)

Demographic Change Issues

• Children of color already make up the majority of kids in many US states (The Conversation)

• Why the Announcement of a Looming White Minority Makes Demographers Nervous (The New York Times)

• White fear of demographic change is a powerful psychological force (Vox)