Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. As a very general science, it can analyse any kind of dynamic living population, i.e., one that changes over time or space (see population dynamics). Demography encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and spatial or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, ageing, and death. Based on the demographic research o ...more

An Essay on the Principle of Population
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-first Century
Why Demography Matters
A Concise History of World Population: Fourth Edition
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
The American Census: A Social History
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
Isaac Asimov
What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to human species if this population growth continues at its present rate? It's going to destroy it all. I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be ...more
Isaac Asimov

Eric Kaufmann
Demography and culture, not economic and political developments, hold the key to under- standing the populist moment. Immigration is central. Ethnic change - the size and nature of the immigrant inflow and its capacity to challenge ethnic boundaries - is the story. Indeed, if history is any guide, we shouldn't be asking why there is a rise in right-wing populism but why it hasn't materialized faster in places such as Sweden or the US. Politicians say diversity is a problem for the nation-state, ...more
Eric Kaufmann, Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities

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