Stricter population controls in India could have disastrous consequences for women and minority communities.
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Arguments about population growth are unhelpful, distracting and often racist.
The human population has doubled in 48 years, and worsening climate change has left the world facing serious health risks, from infectious diseases to hunger and heat stress.
The UN estimates the global population will pass 8 billion people on Nov. 15, 2022. From the Stone Age to today, here’s how things spiraled out of control.
There should be a better long-term strategy for foreign direct investments in Nigeria that’s not tied to its oil reserves.
Nigeria must prioritise investment in education, health and infrastructure to harness the opportunities of its huge population.
A 1972 report warned that unchecked consumption could crater the world economy by 2100. Fifty years and much debate later, can humanity innovate quickly enough to avoid that fate?
According to the 2021 Census there are now almost one million Indigenous people in Australia. Although increase in population is a reason for this, there are some other factors to consider.
India is now the third-largest birthplace of Australian residents behind Australia and England, while for the first time less than half of the population has identified as Christian.
Census is a huge scientific responsibility that requires a high level of preparedness, transparency and quality assurance.
A street-by-street analysis shows where the risks are rising fastest and also lays bare the inequities of who has to endure America’s crippling flood problem.
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
If rural communities plan carefully – and some already are – they can reinvent themselves as the perfect homes for people fleeing wildfire and hurricane zones.
Hot, humid population centers are becoming epicenters of heat risk as climate changes worsens. It’s calling into question the conventional wisdom that urbanization uniformly reduces poverty.
Youth unemployment in Nigeria is a skills mismatch problem – corporations can’t find suitable workers in the midst of a large pool of unemployed workers.
Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. That record will be broken this century, statistical models suggest.
Census 2021 is no ordinary population survey – it will lay the foundation for Australia’s post-pandemic future.
Ghana’s latest population census offers a window into the contested terrain of population statistics.
The report will show that by 2061 there will only be 2.7 Australians of traditional working age for each Australian over 65.
The Nigerian government must design more interventions to improve education, employment opportunities and the economy in order to control the country’s population growth.
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Demographer, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University
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Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Professor and Demographer, Macquarie University
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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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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Anthropologue et démographe, professeur au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle et chercheur associé à l'INED, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Newcastle
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ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
