The past two decades has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the health and well-being of the older population. The workshop looked at these recent trends and set the stage for the next ...

My first year on earth culminated in the Summer of Love. My 55th, and most recent year ended in the Summer of Demography. Does the shift in focus - from free love to population statistics - that the ...

"The Global Baby Bust," by Phillip Longman (May/June 2004), offers a new version of an old fear: the threat of population decline, which has emerged periodically throughout the past century as a major ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over time, the population of Israel has increased to just over two million in 1960, about four million in 1980, nearly six and a half million at the turn of the current century. On November 29, 1947, ...

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 ...