Population forecasting and projections represent a critical demographic tool employed by researchers and policymakers to anticipate future changes in population size and structure. Techniques in this ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

In just seven years, North Carolina could reach a demographic milestone: more deaths than births, according to new projections by the state’s demographer Michael Cline. “Unless fertility or life ...

For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The Population Bomb” in the 1960s, the warnings were dire: More people would mean ...

Lawmakers, industry leaders and government planners have all made critical decisions about Houston’s future with this perpetual growth in mind, investing billions of dollars into infrastructure, ...

Authors: Leslie Root, University of Colorado Boulder; Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Shelley Clark, McGill University Pronatalism – the belief that low birth ...

For years, it's been taken as a given that Houston will continue to grow for the foreseeable future, inexorably expanding over southeast Texas to accommodate the millions of people expected to move ...

The growing elderly population is set to exert increasing pressure on healthcare and social security, thereby putting a strain on the state’s finances ...

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