The balance of global growth is shifting
As China’s growth rate slows, other nations will pick up the slack.
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As China’s growth rate slows, other nations will pick up the slack.
Viktor Orbán has copped a lot of flak for encouraging marriage and births – but he’s having the last laugh.
Shifting populations have powerful economic and political implications.
As the world’s population soars, the jostling to reach the wealthy West will accelerate.
Africa’s population surge, the history of the escalator, and why two Hollywood actors bought a mid-tier football club in Wales. Ian Stewart picks out the best from the papers.
The world’s population is expected to hit 8 billion people on November 15, according to the UN.
After four extraordinary decades, where China’s population swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, it is on track to turn down this year.
In a world where titles are used as self-fulfilling prophecies, our names retain a strange voodoo power and often convey a sense of destiny that’s entirely specious.
Birth rates are declining across the world. How worried should we be?
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