It is easy for people in the industrialised world to blame population growth elsewhere for environmental damage. But increased consumption is just as important – if more confronting.
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Labor’s immigration spokesperson Kristina Keneally says immigration has “hurt many Australian workers”. The evidence suggests it hasn’t.
Cellphone data can show who coronavirus patients interacted with, which can help isolate infected people before they feel ill. But how digital contact tracing is implemented matters.
Lagos poses a set of particular challenges when it comes to making interventions work.
Countries have been trying to count their populations since the Han dynasty in China.
Long before coronavirus hit Australia we were moving less between states and regions. Some worry about economic impacts, but a greater concern is inequality if some people find themselves ‘trapped’.
The number of births in the United States have been falling for the last three decades, reaching their lowest number in 32 years.
To be clear, I’m not advocating compulsory population control, here or anywhere. But we do need to consider a future with billions more people, many of them aspiring to live as Australians do now.
The number of old people will increase, while the proportion of white Americans will continue to fall.
There is substantial difference in what’s happening to migration from inside and outside the EU.
The government wants more people to live in Australia’s north. So we looked at three scenarios to increase the population and the results don’t always look good for the north.
Talk of moving people out of Japan’s cities into rural areas is changing after the recent cyclone hit near Tokyo. Smarter, more connected cities may be a safer way to go.
A little bit of statistics can explain the great mystery of why only girls are being born in Miejsce Odrzanskie.
The UK is facing a population crisis with birth rates at an all-time low.
July 29, 2019 is ‘Earth Overshoot Day,’ a date coined by the nonprofit Global Footprint Network to publicize overuse of Earth’s resources. But their estimates may actually understate the problem.
Demographers have figured out a simple and effective way to estimate the number of unauthorized immigrants – even without information on citizenship.
There were an extra 623,000 deaths in the UK in the year to mid-2018 – an increase of 3%.
The UN’s new global population projections include some surprises – in particular, that the global population in 2100 will be 3% less than they projected in 2017.
Whatever happens with Brexit, the UK population is projected to increase in size, become more ethnically diverse and shift to a structure which is older.
As DNA testing becomes cheaper, it becomes more feasible to screen large numbers of healthy people for their risk of disease.
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle et conseiller de la direction de l'INED, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Data Analytics for Population Research, University of Leeds
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Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Newcastle
