Population

Policy

Panicking over the planet and population is pointless

We have to look at history and give careful thought to the world’s complexity

Daniel McCarthy

The global fertility crisis is already here

For the first time, humans aren’t producing enough babies to sustain the population

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

How low birth rates could threaten our civilization

For Italians — and for everyone else — there is a warning from history

Paul Wood

The African exception to the population bust

More than half of the world’s 8 billion people today live in Africa, India or China

Peter A. Coclanis

Family

Western culture is at fault for dwindling birth rates

We are witnessing the process of demographic crisis in its early stages

Louise Perry