Demographers are highly trained social scientists who specialize in analyzing the structure of populations and changes such as growth, decline and migration. Their research and forecasts of population ...

C. Jessica Metcalf, a professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, and public affairs at Princeton, is a demographer who studies the spread of infectious diseases. Her work on health policy has special ...

Scientific literature has considered human population trends as "slow," with fertility and mortality driving long term changes that are fully appreciable in generation-long periods, but the current ...

In this paper we examine just one of the many cases of the exponential power of demography at work on the global stage today. This is the manner in which the fate of East Asia stands to be recast in ...

The importance of demography for U.S. immigration is finally getting its due. Recent Congressional testimony by Dowell Myers highlights the effects of baby boomer retirement on the U.S. labor market, ...

The latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live! This week, Jim sat down with Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. They discussed ...

These are challenging times for brand. One challenge cannot be controlled. This is the challenge of demography. This challenge will require brands to leverage strategic dexterity and insightful ...

NextGenPop conference builds a new, diverse generation of population sciences students Work with a demography scholar at Emory University was enough to interest sociology major Courtney Fitzgerald in ...

In general, the terms "American Indian" and "Native American" are used interchangeably here to refer to the combined census categories of American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut. Any use of other ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is professor of globalisation and development at Oxford university and the author of ‘Rescue: From ...